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One San Diego School Says Closure Would Shortchange Community

San Diego city schools are facing a seventh year of budget reductions next fall, and Cadman Elementary is one school recommended for the chopping block.

Eastman Kodak Co. headquarters is shown in Rochester, N.Y. Kodak once employed 60,000 people there, but recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid foreign competition.

Made In The USA: Saving The American Brand

Kodak, an iconic American brand that helped build the town of Rochester, N.Y., recently filed for bankruptcy, due in part to competition from foreign manufacturers. The U.S. auto industry went through a similar upheaval a few years ago. But the Big Three are booming again, thanks to a federal bailout and restructuring. Can other American brands also be saved?

Brad Pitt plays Mr.O'Brien, an archetypal 1950s patriarch who loves his family and can't help but imposes huge expectations on them.

Pitt Plays The American Patriarch In 'Tree Of Life'

Brad Pitt has played a police detective, a mental patient, the outlaw Jesse James and a cutthroat Nazi hunter. But critics are already calling Pitt's latest part, in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, a career-defining performance.

In September 1994, then-House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich addressed Republican congressional candidates on Capitol Hill during a rally where they pledged a new "Contract with America." Months later, Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time in decades, and Gingrich became speaker of the House.

To Imagine A Gingrich Presidency, Look To The '90s

Newt Gingrich rose to prominence as the leader of the 1994 Republican revolution, in which the GOP took back the House majority after 40 years in the wilderness. During his reign, Congress forced a government shutdown, overhauled the welfare system, balanced the budget for the first time in decades and impeached the president.

Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Shura council members gather outside the new Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Cairo on April 30.

Rifts Develop In Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood

With the common enemy of Hosni Mubarak gone, the brotherhood faces internal divisions over its future direction. It could be vague on political positions in the past, but "now it's got to make hard choices," one analyst says.

Many colleges are assigning all incoming freshman a common book to read and discuss in their first week on campus.

College Freshmen Learn From 'Henrietta Lacks'

Many colleges assign books that all incoming freshmen must read over the summer. A popular 2011 assignment is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, about a cell line taken without consent from a black woman with cervical cancer.

A monk at Bodhgaya. Sixty years after India secured independence, Michael Wood sets out on an epic journey "over 10,000 years and 10,000 miles" to uncover the fabulous sights and sounds, the dazzling achievements and the dramatic history of an ancient, prosperous and influential civilization.

The Story Of India: The Power Of Ideas

Airs Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Jorge Herrera with one of his falcons at the Hotel Del Coronado.

Falconer Provides Unique Solution For Hotel Del

Birds Of Prey Keep Seagulls Away

The skull of <em>Hadrocodium wui --</em> a tiny, ancient ancestor of modern mammals — whose improving sense of smell and ballooning olfactory bulbs heralded the evolution of the mammalian brain.

Mammals Smelled Their Way To Bigger Brains

Humans aren't the only brainiacs around — most mammals have large brains for their body size. But how did we get so darn cerebral? Turns out mammalian brain evolution went hand in hand with developing an excellent sense of smell.

Democratic Rep. Mark Critz beat Republican Tim Burns in a special election Tuesday in Pennsylvania's 12th District. Many people looked at the special election as a bellwether for November.

Will This Year's Midterm Elections Mirror 1994?

Voters sent a mixed message in Tuesday night's races: It's still a terrible year to be an incumbent, but maybe not as horrendous a year for Democrats as they had thought. That's raising the question: Is this 1994 all over again -- or not?

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