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Artist Gloria DeArcangelis likes moody, thoughtful music in the background while she does her paintings. She's the latest participant in our series "What Are You Listening To?"

Our summer reading series profiles Robert Rubin, chairman of the executive committee at Citigroup and treasury secretary under President Clinton. Rubin says he has eclectic reading interests and likes to read multiple books in parallel. And though he doesn't read many books on economic issues, he recently enjoyed When Genius Failed (Random House; ISBN: 0375758259) by financial journalist Roger Lowenstein. In preparing his forthcoming memoirs, Rubin has been inspired by The Education of Henry Adams.

In part eight of the series Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues, NPR's Paul Brown explains the way the accordion came to the American southwest in the hands of German immigrants and caught the ears of local Tex Mex musicians.

Two years ago, NPR's John Ydstie went to Scranton, Pa., to report on the closing of a picture-tube plant. Now a three-part Morning Edition series follows the effects of the plant's move to Mexico on former employees in Scranton and on new workers in Mexicali.

At a time when many baseball clubs are looking forward to the playoffs, one team in New York is looking back -- way back -- to 1864. They've organized a league that plays by baseball's first written set of rules. No gloves, underhand pitches. Everything but the handle-bar mustaches. Lars Hoel profiles the New York Gotham vintage base ball team.

A government panel will soon make recommendations for how NASA can avoid another fatal shuttle disaster. But NASA must still decide the goal of its human space program. Many in government want something bolder than the international space station to justify the financial and human costs of exploring space. Hear NPR's Joe Palca.

More and more, companies such as Microsoft, Boeing and IBM are throwing out traditional job interview questions in favor of queries like "If you had to remove one state, which would it be?" NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that the goal is to find out how a potential employee really thinks. See sample questions.

A Washington Post report reveals that Halliburton -- formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney -- has received Pentagon contracts worth $1.7 billion to aid in the rebuilding of Iraq. The contracts cover everything from building construction to logistical support. Hear Post reporter Michael Dobbs.

The March on Washington series continues with a remembrance of Curtis Mayfield's song, "People Get Ready." Although written more than a year after the march, the song evokes the spirit of the civil rights movement. NPR Senior Correspondent Juan Williams reports.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the hardest-working river in the West: the Colorado. Seven states draw from the river to water crops and quench the thirst of rapidly growing cities. As more users step up to tap the river, the conflicts increase between individual states, competing industries and nature itself.