Wooden Letters Follow

Host Liane Hansen reads letters from listeners reacting to the foreclosure crisis, the newly opened Woodstock Museum and our recent series on "Who Is an American?"

His decades-long obsession with a college sorority may link a former Army biowarfare scientist to four anthrax-laced letters dropped off at a New Jersey mailbox in 2001, authorities said Monday in the latest twist of one of the most bizarre unsolved crimes[...]

AP - A rhesus macaque monkey bearing identifying letters on its chest calls out on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, Tuesday, July 29, 2008.

We're all painfully aware of the recent hubbub over regarding ads getting yanked for being insensitive and all the associated angst. So what's the big deal? Well, let's start with the truth about humor. Humor, while often exaggerated and cartoonish,...[...]

Listeners comment on last week's stories, including the distinction between the World Wildlife Federation and World Wrestling Federation, our story on doping at the Tour de France and NPR's salute to its colleague, Gary Smith.

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One of the things that we do on a regular basis is restore carved and sandblasted wooden signs. Usually they are signs that we have done in the past, and the time comes that they need to be repainted or...

AP - Belgian tourists surround a small modern wooden model of the first Pharos king Cheops' second solar boat during their visit to the boat museum at the Pyramids site in Giza, Egypt, Saturday, July 19, 2008.

For far too long, Exclusive Buttons has been a closely-guarded secret in the craft world, where covetous creative types would hoard beautiful vintage deadstock buttons all for themselves. Having visited the shop myself last weekend, I've decided to pull[...]