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  • Half Marathoner: Bad At Directions, Good At Distance Running
    Meredith Fitzmaurice, 34, signed up for a half marathon in Ontario, Canada. Somewhere on the route, she took a wrong turn, landing on the full marathon course. She kept going — becoming the first woman to cross the finish line and was 10th overall. And, she qualified for the Boston Marathon.
  • Those are the hands of David Bradley, an original member of the IBM PC team and the inventor of the control-alt-delete function, hitting the right keys.
    Ctrl-Alt-Delete Defenders Tell Bill Gates It Wasn't A Mistake
    Microsoft's co-founder wishes Windows PCs had been given one start-up key instead of the famous three-key combination. But fans are both nostalgic about what was required and say it helped protect their PCs from some problems.
  • Some things even Washington dysfunction can't touch, like the sight of a new day dawning near the Washington monument.
    Friday Morning Political Mix
    A political journalist tells congressional Republicans to pull the trigger on a government shutdown and debt default... Speaker Boehner's attempt to placate his House GOP caucus' hardliners fails ... Someone goes cute and furry to sell Obamacare.
  • A Trip Down Government Shutdown Lane
    Washington could be headed for another government shutdown. Guest host Celeste Headlee asks NPR's senior political editor Ron Elving whether there are any lessons to be learned from previous shutdowns.
  • "Today society accepts the idea of improving one's image," says Dr. Ivo Pitanguy, Brazil's most famous plastic surgeon. Here a patient receives an injection of hyaluronic acid to plump up her lips at the Brazilian Society for Aesthetic Medicine in Rio de Janeiro in 2008.
    Around The World, Notions Of Beauty Can Be A Real Beast
    In pursuit of beauty, women around the globe subject themselves to complicated and bizarre, not to mention dangerous, procedures. In the West, that can mean going for darker skin. In Africa and parts of Asia, the opposite is the goal. Seriously, a sister just can't win.
  • What to do about trolls in comments sections? It's part of a big conversation in tech this week.
    Tech Week That Was: Online Comments, iPad Hacks And The ACC
    Can online comments be redeemed? That conversation, plus highlights from our tech coverage on-air and online, are in our latest week in review.
  • MBA students from McGill University in Montreal are building a company to mass produce grasshoppers, seen here at a market in Oaxaca, Mexico.
    Students Win Seed Money To Make Flour From Insects
    The students plan to make the nutritious "power flour" with grasshoppers, weevils and caterpillars. Their goal is to make insect-based food products available year-round to people living in some of the world's poorest slums.
  • Law professor Lawrence Lessig, shown here in 2009, is suing an Australian record label for threatening to sue him over an alleged YouTube copyright violation.
    Record Label Picks Copyright Fight — With The Wrong Guy
    Lawrence Lessig was not pleased when Liberation Music persuaded YouTube to take down one of his online lectures because of an alleged copyright violation. So Lessig, one of the most famous copyright attorneys in the world, decided to take a stand against broad, intimidating takedown notices.
  • Cuban Athletes Can Finally Go Pro (Outside Of Cuba)
    For the first time in over 50 years, Cuba is letting its athletes sign professional contracts in other countries. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis talks to Robert Siegel about the historic announcement.
  • Senate OKs Budget Bill, But Fight Not Over
    The Democratic-run Senate has approved legislation aimed at preventing a Tuesday federal shutdown. NPR's Tamara Keith joins us to discuss the vote.
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