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Airs Monday, October 10, 2011 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

Makes the First Film Look Like 'My Little Pony'

As Medicare moves to link hospital payments to the costs and quality of care, hospitals that serve large minority populations could get hurt. That's one implication of an analysis that looks at the cost and quality of care given at individual hospitals across the nation.

U.S.-born Anwar al-Awlaki, who was accused of having ties to a number of plots against the U.S., was killed Friday in Yemen. Also thought to be killed in the drone strike was another American, Samir Khan, the editor of al-Qaida's English-language online magazine, Inspire..

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been criticized recently by Republican presidential candidates who called for his firing and an audit of the central bank. Low opinions of the Fed come from a long history of criticism of its power and secrecy, extending back to Thomas Jefferson.

Larry Groupé is a local film composer who scored the music for the new thriller "Straw Dogs." It opens in area theaters this weekend.

Ten years after Sept. 11, 2001, we consider other clandestine assaults throughout history, from the Greek myth of the Trojan Horse, to the Sack of Rome, to the Revolutionary War and beyond. Why the element of surprise may have special power to topple civilizations.

Seeking to jolt the economy, President Barack Obama will propose new ideas to create jobs and help the struggling poor and middle class.

Some have cast them as hooded thugs with nothing do, while others have said they are underemployed youth with nothing to lose. Reality is more complex.

Weary Washington pushed ahead, and there was even some hopeful talk. For all the bluster, there were hints that a compromise might be near.