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  • Joe Takach comforts his friend Lillian Landry, as she spends her last days in the hospice wing of a hospital in Oakland Park, Fla., in 2009.
    Aggressive Care Still Common For Dying Seniors, Despite Hospice Uptick
    Even as deaths in acute-care hospitals declined in recent years, the use of intensive care units in the last month of life increased. There has been greater use of hospice care, but much of it was for three days or less at the very end of life, a study finds.
  • Hans Massaquoi told his story in <em>Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germany</em>. The former managing editor of <em>Ebony</em> magazine died on his 87th birthday last Saturday.
    'Ebony' Editor Began Life Black In Nazi Germany
    Long before becoming managing editor of Ebony magazine, Hans Massaquoi yearned to be a Hitler Youth. His rare story came to an end when Massaquoi died this week at the age of 87.
  • Kristen Chenoweth stars in the new ABC series <em>GCB</em>.
    Kristin Chenoweth On God, Comedy And Dolly Parton
    The Emmy-winning actress stars on ABC's new GCB, a sort of Desperate-Housewives-ish dishy, soapy comedy-drama premiering Sunday night. The show — about a group of Southern Christian women — hit close to home for the singer, who grew up in the Bible Belt and describes herself as a "God person."
  • The Best of Our Knowledge # 821
    http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-515534.mp3Albany, NY – 1,750 FAILING SCHOOLS -The U.S. Department of Education has…
  • Children exposed to meth may have more problems with anxiety and depression.
    Kids Exposed To Meth In Womb Can Struggle With Behavior Problems
    Meth-exposed children are more anxious and depressed at age 3, a new study found. And they tended to be more disruptive at age 5. But researchers say those problems are manageable if children and parents get help early on.
  • Peter Reckell as Bo Brady and Kristian Alfonso as Hope Williams Brady: still at it after all these years.
    Cheaper Clothes And Shorter Stories: On Soaps, Strange 'Days' Indeed
    Neda Ulaby looks at the changing nature of soap operas and at how Days Of Our Lives is changing to stay alive.
  • U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), center, speaks as Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), right, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at a April news conference on Capitol Hill.
    Abortion-Rights Advocates Pin Hopes On Defense Bill
    Last month, with little notice or fanfare, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, got an amendment included in the huge annual Department of Defense bill that would permit military health insurance to cover abortions for servicewomen whose pregnancies are the result of rape or incest.
  • Another Senate Campaign Could See SuperPAC Truce (Or Not)
    Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat, sent a letter to Rep. Denny Rehberg, the Republican who seeks to unseat him, requesting a truce on outside money funding negative ads for their campaigns, meaning superPACs.
  • 'The Snowy Day': Breaking Color Barriers, Quietly
    The classic children's book by Ezra Jack Keats turns 50 this year. When it came out in 1962, it was one of the first major kids' books to feature a non-caricatured black protagonist. It became a huge hit, and was embraced by parents, teachers and children of all colors.
  • The Best of Our Knowledge # 804
    http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-499944.mp3Albany, NY – NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SERIES POWERFUL SIGNALS:…
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