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Among the thousands of funded goals included in $286.4 billion transportation bill signed by President Bush are projects that range from being simply historical to ones that aim to solve long-standing traffic snarls. From an Erie Canal museum to bridges and highways, the money is on the way.

As Social Security turns 70, President Franklin Roosevelt is remembered for bringing this popular government program to life. But it was Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins who led the team that created the plan for Social Security and steered it through Congress.

Lance Armstong enjoys strong prospects for winning his seventh consecutive Tour de France as the competition heads toward Sunday's finish in Paris. Melissa Block talks to former racer Frankie Andreu of the Outdoor Life Network.

The world-renowned chefs and bakers of the "tiny" food world spend countless hours making tiny meals. And you can't even eat them. In our series on hobbies, Robert Smith looks at cuisine through a magnifying glass.

NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reconnects with the members of "Roadtrip Nation." The young explorers have taken the idea of doing a post-college road trip and turned it into a public television series. They ask successful people they meet on the road how they got where they are.

NASA has neither found nor fixed the fuel sensor fault that halted the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery two weeks ago. So it's turning to the ultimate test: setting another launch in motion, for mid-morning Tuesday.

The Republican governors are asking for federal law enforcement to take the lead in protecting the justices in the weeks and months ahead as protests continue.

Mike Wallace has been on the CBS News program 60 Minutes since it debuted on Sept. 24, 1968. Wallace talks with Steve Inskeep about his past -- and the future of broadcast journalism.

In Chicago, the Berghoff Restaurant -- the famed German eatery and alehouse -- is closing its doors in February after operating for more than a century. Melissa Block talks with Michael Santiago, the restaurant's longtime maitre d'.

No one knows what birds see when they look out at the world, but one ornithologist is sure they don't see glass. Daniel Klem estimates that at least 1 billion birds are killed by flying into windows every year in the United States.