Search results for

The word glitch may appear at first glance to be a piece of modern slang, like Snafu. But the fact is that it has been around for at least a century in American slang, and much longer before that in Europe.

A piece of Detroit music history is torn down to make way for Super Bowl parking. The Motown Center, which once housed the famous record label, had been abandoned for more than 30 years.

Doctors who performed the world's first partial face transplant provide an update on the procedure and the patient's condition. The recipient was a 38-year-old French woman who had been mauled by a dog.

Scott Peterson, Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, describes what it's like to be on patrol with U.S. Marines in the Fallujah area. Last month, he was embedded with the Marine company that controls most of northeast Fallujah.

Six men forced from their homes by violence in Sierra Leone have transformed their experience into a musical calling. The Refugee All Stars are now the subject of a feature-length documentary that follows their performances.

On the CD Goulash!, Matt Haimovitz and his stringed instrument explore the music of Hungary, Romania and Transylvania. And he throws in a version of the rock band's "Kashmir" for good measure.

The Pentagon is exploring proposals to give the military a prominent role during disasters within the United States. That might require changing the posse comitatus law, which generally makes it illegal for the military to perform law enforcement duties within the United States. In the second of two commentaries on the law, commentator Austin Bay, a colonel in the Army Reserve, says we should leave posse comitatus alone.

Listener Daniel Ferri's newborn son suffered a stroke as Hurricane Katrina neared the Gulf Coast. Ferri says the two disasters, one personal, one natural, shaped his belief in the kindness of strangers.

The current method of vaccine production, which requires the incubation of flu virus in chicken eggs, may not be up to the task of protecting people from a new strain of deadly flu.

Walgreens suspends four Illinois pharmacists who wouldn't sign a pledge to fill all prescriptions. Some refused to give customers the "morning after" birth-control pill, citing religious beliefs. Maria Hickey of member station KWMU reports.