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The Senate is scheduled to vote on a measure to expand federally funded embryonic stem-cell research. If the measure is approved, it's likely to result in President Bush's first veto. The bill divides Republicans, and could be a factor in midterm Congressional elections.

Despite the myriad means of modern communication, some people prefer to share information the old-fashioned way: town crying. Towns from Canada to California and Washington rely on criers to announce the news. Alex Cohen of member station KQED reports.

A blog called Born This Way pairs childhood photos with first-person essays on being gay.

Gary Larson created more than 4,000 cartoons for The Far Side, and they've all been collected in a hefty new anthology. Yet the artist still has trouble explaining what his strange, world-of-their-own panels are about. Hear Larson describe a cartoon he wishes he had drawn, along with other excerpts of his interview with NPR's Bob Edwards.

The a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been singing the story of South Africa for more than 40 years. On its latest album, the group has recorded an album of Zulu songs traditionally sung by parents to their children.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH AUTHORS ROBERT GOLDBERG, A TELEVISION CRITIC OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND GERALD JAY GOLDBERG, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ENGLISH AND UCLA, A FATHER-SON TEAM, ABOUT THEIR NEW BOOK "CITIZEN TURNER: THE WILD RISE OF AN AMERICAN TYCOON" PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY...THE SAGA OF TED TURNER AND HIS RISE AS A MAJOR AMERICAN FIGURE.

Editor and writer Walter Kirn's latest novel, Mission to America, is about a fictional quasi-religious group, the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles, seeking new converts to help them survive. The topic is one Kirn has experience with: When he was 12, Kirn's family became Mormons.

British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as The Caretaker and The Birthday Party and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

Crime writer Lynda La Plante created the award-winning British TV series Prime Suspect, as well as the popular series Trial & Retribution and The Commander. She shares her insights into the psychology of wrongdoers and the law enforcers who pursue them.

It's easy being green... when it's your birthday: Kermit the Frog turns 50 years old Monday. Barry Gordemer, Morning Edition senior producer and puppeteer, has this birthday tribute to the star of The Muppet Show and countless movies and videos.

A couple's legal battle may presage future conflicts between religious groups and gay couples who want to get married. As same-sex couples in California begin getting legally married on Monday, there are signs of a coming storm.

In 1960, "the first lady of song," Ella Fitzgerald, recorded the album that Murray Horwitz calls "his favorite Ella Fitzgerald performance of all time." Wishes You a Swinging Christmas includes classic holiday pieces by Irving Berlin and Mitchell Parish.