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Bill Gates founded Microsoft on the dream of putting a computer in every home and office. He says he built his company on the belief that technology, creativity and intelligence can change the world.

Google.com, the top Internet search engine, has a new legal battle on its hands -- this one from angry writers. Noah Adams talks with Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin about a lawsuit that claims that Google's effort to make books searchable and findable on the Internet violates copyright law.

Millions of Afghans vote for a new parliament despite the surge of violence in the weeks leading to the election. There were reportedly several dozen Taliban attacks in the country's south and east, and two rockets landed near an election center in Kabul. But officials said the election overall was remarkably peaceful.

Scallop season has started in the tiny port town of Port en Bessin, Normandy. France is the world's largest consumer of scallops, giving local fishermen a lucrative domestic market. But a dispute over the naming of imported scallops has many fishermen from Normandy crying foul.

Alan Cheuse reviews E. L. Doctorow's latest novel, The March. It chronicles Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's devastating march through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War.

Fifty years ago this month, a high school in suburban Cleveland hosted an early concert by Elvis Presley. A crew recorded the event, but the film later disappeared. As David C. Barnett of member station WCPN reports, the missing footage is a sort of holy grail for Elvis fans.

Retired teacher and USA Weekend reader Nancy Yucius believes in living life so as to have no regrets. It's a lesson she learned from her mother and one Yucius is holding on to even more now that she is battling colon cancer.

One feature of Havana, Cuba, eclipses all others: a miles-long sea wall called the Malecon. At any given moment, there are hundreds of people gathered there. NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro took a walk down the Malecon and talked to Cubans about life and love in Havana.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a weeklong visit to Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan. She is seeking assurances that the United States will have access to military bases in the region. Neighboring Uzbekistan has ordered U.S. troops out of a base used for operations in Afghanistan.

A proposal to build a casino among the aging blast furnaces of a former Bethlehem Steel plant is dividing the community of Bethlehem, Pa. Opponents say the development will spoil the character of the place; supporters say it will bring much-needed jobs.