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Baby boomers are obsessed with ratings. They rank everything: best to worst, least to most, zero to 100, A to F. So we turn the tables and issue the generation its own cohort report card.

South Korea's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with North Korea is being criticized and dismantled under a new administration. But the architect of that policy, former President Kim Dae-jung, says it still has the support of the majority of South Koreans.

What compels a person to leave their comfy job on Wall Street so they can risk their life climbing seven of the tallest mountains on earth? We speak to Bo Parfet, author of Die Trying: One Man's Quest to Conquer Seven Summits, about why he climbed the tallest mountains on seven continents, and what he's learned from the experience.

Luis Alberto Urrea, one of today's most critically acclaimed writers, talks with us about his new novel "Into the Beautiful North," which is set in a Mexican village and in the Tijuana-San Diego border region.

Already suffering from "after innovation erosion," where biotech firms move their manufacturing and distribution arms out of California, biotech will most certainly lose what edge it has when deep budget cuts hit state colleges and universities. Predators are already circling.

Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering use of microcredit -- tiny loans -- to spur development among the poor. Bangladesh is a poverty-stricken nation of about 141 million people. The Grameen microcredit model has been exported to poor nations around the world.

Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel literature prize. Pamuk, 54, gained international acclaim for books including Snow, Istanbul and My Name Is Red. But he has also earned notoriety for legal troubles over his comments on Turkey's past.

Edmund Phelps, a professor at Columbia University, has won the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics. He was awarded the prize for work he did in the 1960s on the tradeoffs between economic objectives such as controling inflation and unemployment.

Joe Palca speaks with 2006 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine about their work and what it's like to win the prize.

Before there was Bernie Madoff, there was Ivar Kreuger, the man John Kenneth Galbraith called the Leonardo of scammers. When Kreuger, an extremely successful and much-admired businessman during the 1920s, killed himself in 1932, investors discovered that his financial empire, based in the manufacture of matches, was made of sand, built out of complex financial instruments that are the forerunners of today's derivatives.