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On Friday, the United Auto Workers begins some of the toughest contract talks in its seven-decade history. Past UAW leaders went to the bargaining table with a list of new demands. These days, the union just hopes to protect what it has.

In the mid-1970s, a health researcher discovered an unusually high rate of hysterectomies in a small town in Maine. If the rate continued, nearly 70 percent of Lewiston women, like Carol Bradford (above), who had a hysterectomy, would be without their wombs by age 70. A major driver of health care costs: a system that pushes doctors to deliver unnecessary care.

Your most direct link to global warming may be the food you eat. The bounty of your local grocery store depends on natural cycles of rain and heat in far-flung parts of the world. Now those cycles are shifting and the effects on agriculture may be profound.

In a final sermon this past Sunday, the Rev. Jerry Falwell told churchgoers that he was at peace with death. His passing prompts a reflection on the conservative leader's life and career, in his own words.

Christopher Dell seems to like challenging jobs. He's heading to Kabul later this summer, after three years as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe. There, he earned a reputation for speaking out against President Robert Mugabe's regime.

The ultimate clean fuel, at least at first glance, is vegetable oil. Plants make it from sunlight, water, and a greenhouse gas — and they remove carbon dioxide from the air as they grow. The oil is easily converted into fuel for diesel engines. Around the globe there's now a rush toward so-called "biodiesel."

A new history project helps Cambodia take a tiny step toward confronting the murderous four-year reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s. As many as 2 million people died, but the era is barely mentioned in school textbooks.

Iraqi television broadcasts an alleged statement from Saddam Hussein, urging Baghdad's residents to fight U.S. forces with their hands if necessary. Hoping to avoid drawn-out urban warfare, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeals to Iraqi soldiers to surrender, saying they "can still survive and help to rebuild a free Iraq." NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

How are U.S. immigration policies leading to an increase in deaths of people who cross the border illegally? We speak to filmmaker John Carlos Frey, and Dr. John Hunter about the risks undocumented immigrants face as they cross the border in search of opportunity in the United States.

Controversy surrounding the human papillomavirus vaccine continues as parents consider whether or not their young daughters should receive it. We speak with a pediatrician about the latest research on the vaccine.