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Best known for drumming and singing with soul revival band Durand Jones & The Indications, Frazer charts his own course on his solo debut, produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach.

Religions hold a variety of views toward IVF. Catholicism has one of the strongest negative judgments against the practice. Yet many in the church still use the procedure in order to have children.

There's controversy over a possible new data center in rural Davis, West Virginia. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with journalist Dan Parks.

Of course now was the moment for a Charli xcx-assisted Wuthering Heights: Pop fandoms and literary ones have rarely had more in common, especially when it comes to epic romance.

In Massachusetts, a bakery called Stone & Skillet is reinventing the English muffin as something that goes beyond morning toast.

Exponentially more complicated than applying for college is figuring out how to pay for it. We talk to an expert.

A concert with jazz singer REBECCA KILGORE, accompanied by pianist David Frishberg. KILGORE is known as Portland's premier singer, and is just now emerging as a major talent. She and Frishberg comprise one of the longest running jazz duos in the country. KILGORE's latest CD is "I Saw Stars." "I Saw Stars" with Dan Barrett's Celestial Six, Arbors Records [ARCD 19136, 1994. Her first CD release was "Looking at You", with Dave Frishberg on piano, [PHD Music, 1994.

This year, Peg Collison joined tens of thousands of older Americans in making the move from her home of almost thirty years into a retirement community. She had planned for the move, saving her money and taking out long-term health insurance. Still, her decision to move was difficult for her family, her friends and herself. As part of our series on the Changing Face of America, Peg Collison and her son, radio producer Dan Collison, produced a three part series on her transition. It's called Mom's Good Move.

For 20 years, Shoebox has brought a quirky irreverence to the once-sentimental realm of greeting cards. Editor Sarah Tobabin and writer Dan Taylor talk to Robert Siegel about the tricky business of humor and the rejected idea that a writer can't quite let go of: the "funny, but no."

Scientists in Scotland say they have cloned an adult sheep. This is the first time that scientists have reported cloning an adult mammal. Many are now wondering whether the same techniques could be used on human beings. Robert talks to several people about the implications of cloning. Dan Rosenberg, General Manager of Three Chimneys Farm, says cloning would make the business of breeding horses less interesting. Ruth Portilo, (poor- TIH - loh) director of the Center on Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, says that human cloning seems likely one day. Ted Peters, Professor of Theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California says that cloning may be unwise, but not unethical. And Dr. Leon Kass, the Addie Clark Harding Professor at the College and Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago, says that human cloning denies the essense of the individual.