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  • Hydrocodone, sold as Vicodin and other brand names, may face tighter restrictions on prescribing and use.
    FDA Seeks To Tighten Controls On Hydrocodone Painkillers
    The painkiller OxyContin is already classified as a Schedule II drug because of the "severe" risk of addiction. Now the Food and Drug Administration wants to move Vicodin and other painkillers containing hydrocodone to Schedule II as well, citing soaring rates of addiction and overdose deaths.
  • Are We Ready For A Massive Aging Population?
    America's population is aging at a rapid rate: 20 percent of the country will be 65 or older by the year 2050. Guest host Celeste Headlee talks with experts about how the aging population will affect the American landscape.
  • Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
    'Suppository' Gaffe Makes Politician The Butt Of Jokes
    Tony Abbott, who might be Australia's next prime minister, was making the case that current prime minister Kevin Rudd has too much decision-making power. His words struck a bum note, though.
  • Bike ambulance driver Grace Kakyo transports a patient in northern Uganda.
    In Rural Uganda, Homemade Bikes Make The Best Ambulances
    A Ugandan who has studied engineering in the U.S. is working to solve medical transportation problems in his homeland. A nonprofit he founded is helping villagers build bicycle ambulances from scrap metal.
  • Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals gestures toward the pitcher after being hit by a pitch in a game against the Atlanta Braves at Nationals Park on Aug. 6 in Washington, D.C.
    Baseball Danger: An Instant Conversation
    In professional baseball, what's known as retaliation — when the pitcher from one team will intentionally throw the ball at a batter from the other team — can be risky business.
  • Taylor Schilling plays Piper in Netflix's <em>Orange Is the New Black</em>, which is based on Piper Kerman's memoir of her year in prison.
    Behind 'The New Black': The Real Piper's Prison Story
    When she was 24, Piper Kerman dated a woman who was part of a drug smuggling ring. Years later, after being named as part of that ring, Kerman served time in a federal prison and at one point shared a cell with her former girlfriend. Her memoir of that experience inspired the Netflix series.
  • The Basics from Bittman
    March 16, 2013: Renowned food writer and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman talks about his new, book: How to Cook Everything: The Basics (All You Need…
  • A courtroom sketch of James "Whitey" Bulger (left) and defense attorney J.W. Carney, Jr.
    James 'Whitey' Bulger Guilty Of Murder, Racketeering
    The now-83-year-old Boston gangster could be sentenced to life because of the murder convictions.
  • 'Whitey' Bulger Guilty Of 11 Killings
    Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger has been convicted in a string of 11 killings and other underworld crimes. The 83-year-old Bulger faces life in prison.
  • Maids at work in a large kitchen, circa 1890.
    Three Ways Cooking Has Changed Over The Last 300 Years
    When you put a librarian and a historian in the kitchen with a centuries' old cookbook, you get a lot more than recipes. You also get a sense of how much the way we eat has changed — from how we define dessert to the size of our eggs.
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