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Two days after the snow started falling in Denver, thousands of travelers remain stranded at Denver International Airport. The storm caused more than 2,000 flights to be cancelled. Some planes are now taking off.

If the rain has kept you from food shopping and planning for the holidays, don't worry. We've got Chef Bernard Guillas in studio to talk about last minute recipes, stress-free holiday dinners, and New Year's cocktails.

We speak to "These Days" Legal Analyst Dan Eaton about contest- or competition-related lawsuits. We discuss the details of lawsuits related to horse racing and spelling bees. We also get an update on

An immigration audit of employees at Escondido Disposal,Inc., found that a quarter of the Edco workforce did not have proper documentation; a major ruling in a legal battle over religious classroom banners in a Rancho Penasquitos high school; and fallout including lawsuits and damage claims, from the recent blackout.

Michael Haynie served 14 years in the U.S. Air Force before becoming an assistant professor at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. He now leads the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, which he founded in 2007 to teach veterans with injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan how to go into business for themselves. Host Michel Martin talks with Haynie, along with Brian Iglesias, who served two tours of duty in Iraq, where he was injured by a roadside bomb. Iglesias completed Haynie's program and is now President and CEO of his own film production company, Veterans Inc.

New York Times journalist C.J. Chivers has written a lengthy article for Esquire magazine on the bloody Sept. 2004 siege of a school in Beslan by Chechen militants. He talks with Liane Hansen.

As the Obama administration prepares to start doling out $8 billion in funding for high-speed-train projects, proposals have flooded in from around the country. Forty states and the District of Columbia have already requested more than $100 billion for high-speed-rail projects. Though many projects are ambitious, the U.S. is still far away from a European- or Asian-style rail network, experts say.

Who was behind the inflammatory ad that showed Obama wearing a turban? The answer could be the start of a joke: a hypnotherapist, an apolitical wedding videographer, and a felon now on the run. And they still haven't paid for the ad.

Can drugs make us smarter? Some students are taking drugs developed for people with cognitive deficits like ADHD to help them learn faster and remember better. As part of our monthly series on ethic