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Two years ago, North Dakota National Guardsman Brandon Erickson lost his right arm in an attack in Iraq. A follow-up report finds that he's a newlywed just back from a honeymoon, but still has problems with a high-tech prosthetic arm.

Richard McCann's autobiographical novel Mother of Sorrows took 20 years to complete. The author tells Jacki Lyden how the book came to be.

For some people, chile peppers are wild enough when they're encountered in southwestern cooking. But Scott Simon and crew recently searched fruitlessly for chiles growing wild in the Sonoran desert.

We remember the comedian Richard Pryor, who died on Saturday. This interview originally aired on May 22, 1995.

A Harvard dental researcher says he's figured out the purpose of the giant, unicorn-like tusk seen on narwhal whales: It acts like an antenna that allows the narwhal to sense food and sea conditions. The dentist says the tusks are a giant tooth that grows inside out, with hard tissue inside and sensitive nerves on the outside.

British police shoot and kill a man in the Stockwell underground station Friday morning. The shooting -- and an arrest midday in south London -- are related to four small explosions Thursday, according to police.

Police in London now say the man chased and shot to death Friday by plainclothes officers in a subway station was not linked to the city's July bombings. He was a 27-year-old Brazilian who had lived in London for several years.

Thirty years ago, the National Association of Black Journalists was created. Then, African Americans held few jobs in the new business. A visit to two newsrooms shows what has changed... and what hasn't.

In his new book The Republican War on Science, journalist Chris Mooney contends that the Bush administration has distorted research and misinformed the public on issues ranging from stem-cell research to global warming. The motivation, Mooney argues, is political power.

The owners of a nursing home in which patients died after they were not evacuated during Hurricane Katrina are facing negligent-homicide charges. Aid workers found 34 bodies in St. Rita's, the St. Bernard Parish facility. Robert Siegel talks with Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti.