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April 18 marks the centennial of one of America's greatest catastrophes, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. In part one of our two-part re-examination of the events following the quake, we look at how bad luck and human error exacerbated the disaster. Our look at the disaster is brought to us by independent producer Jesse Boggs and the Hearing Voices radio project.

Jennifer Lewis-Hall, author of the new self-help book Life Changes, explains how to make changes in your life — big or small — one step at a time.

A new year dawns in New Orleans and along the Gulf coast after a 2005 that residents would rather forget for all the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

Author and commentator John McWhorter talks about his latest book, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America.

Rescue efforts continued through the night to reach 13 coal miners trapped 260 feet below ground in West Virginia's Sago mine. Emily Corio of West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports.

Author Christine Rosen talks about My Fundamentalist Education, her humorous and affectionate memoir of growing up in the 1980s in a fundamentalist household.

Woody Allen leaves both comedy and New York behind for his new movie, Match Point, a thriller set in England. Bob Mondello reviews the new film staring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer and Matthew Goode.

Tired of motorists who treated stop signs as mere invitations to slow down, police in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Ill., have installed a second sign underneath the regular stop signs that read: "Stop Means Stop."

Having cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Samuel Alito is one step closer to a seat on the Supreme Court and an important role on the issue of abortion.

President Bush said Tuesday there will be "more tough fighting ahead" in Iraq, but denied claims that the nation is in the grips of a civil war three years after the U.S.-led invasion.