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Four of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO plan to boycott the organization's 50th anniversary convention. The unions involved comprise about one-third of the AFL-CIO's 13 million members.

Jack Ma has an ambitious goal: changing China's corporate culture. He's the founder of Alibaba, a business-to-business online trading company that puts businesses directly in touch with suppliers, cutting out the middleman and the middle costs.

Hundreds of humans have flown in space. Only 40 women have made the journey -- including Eileen M. Collins, who commands the Space Shuttle Discovery on NASA's historic return to flight. NPR explores the long road that women like her have trod into space.

Steven Bochco is co-creator and executive producer of Over There, a new FX drama about U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Bochco has won 10 Emmy awards for creating and producing Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue.

While Harry Potter has grown to become a huge a marketing event, the book series is still, at its heart, a literary event. Critic-at-large John Powers considers kids today lucky to have that experience. He compares it to his experiences purchasing and reading the Hardy Boys mysteries as a child.

Author and actor Martin Moran's new memoir is The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace. As a boy, he was sexually abused by a male counselor at a Catholic boys' camp. Nearly 30 years later, Moran went to see the man again at a convalescent home.

Possible ethical lapses in the way South Korean researchers obtained women's eggs for their experiments threaten to derail international collaborations in stem cell research. Last year, Korean scientists stunned the world by announcing that they'd cloned a human embryo -- a feat only the Koreans have managed.

President Bush, meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing, pressed his government to expand political and religious freedoms. The president began his day worshipping at a Protestant church -- one of the few state-sanctioned Christian churches in the capital. In response, Hu said China would work to develop human rights.

Link Wray is the man who is said to have inspired rock-and-roll legends such as Pete Townsend and Neil Young with his power chord guitar playing. Link Wray was 76 when he died earlier this month at his home in Copenhagen. Wray's style was considered to be the foundation for heavy metal and punk music.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says the call last week by Rep.John Murtha (D-PA) for withdrawal of American troops from Iraq has changed the political landscape with regard to the war.