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Jennie Erdal was the ghostwriter bheind several best-selling novels published under the name of her boss, a well-known British publisher and businessman. She explores the complex nature of creativity and anonymity in a new book: Ghosting: A Double Life.

That lighted, flashing floor where John Travolta strutted his stuff in the movie Saturday Night Fever is now the subject of a lawsuit almost as hot as the Bee Gees. Two businessmen are tangling over who owns this piece of disco history.

It's been a difficult week for U.S. and Afghan relations, with the Afghan president demanding U.S. troops be confined to bases within a year following an alleged shooting spree by a U.S. serviceman that left 16 Afghan civilians dead. The flared tensions could force the Obama administration to rethink its plans for withdrawal.

President Bush tours the storm-ravaged city of New Orleans in a military transport. Troops swept through the area ahead of the president's arrival, making sure holdouts had been removed.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Richard Cook, co-author of Penguin Books' new Guide to Jazz on CD. Thousands of reviews of jazz cds are included in this 1,700-page book -- a virtual jazz primer. The book: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, by Richard Cook, Brian Morton. (7:19)Music used in Renee Montagne's interview with Richard Cook, co-author of The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD: 1. Duke Ellington-Jungle Nights in Harlem (FROM CD: Highlights from the Centennial Edition, RCA Victor) 2.Duke Ellington- Far East Suite Isfahan (FROM CD: Highlights from the Centennial Edition, RCA Victor) 3.Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers- A Night in Tunisia (FROM CD: Night in Tunisia, BLUE NOTE) 4.Medeski Martin and Wood- Sugar Craft (from CD: Combustication, BLUE NOTE) 5. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers- Hipsippy Blues (from CD: At the Jazz Corner of the World, BLUE NOTE)

NPR's Noah Adams, continuing his series on low-wage workers, reports from New Orleans on the Kid's Cafe at Saint Philip Church. Every Thursday evening about 70 youngsters and parents gather for a white tablecloth dinner. The community effort is supported by Second Harvesters Food Bank, with the help of students from nearby Dillard University, a historically black school. Campus Kitchen volunteers prepare food the night before, and the Dillard students take a mentoring role at the dinner, talking to the kids about their problems and encouraging them to plan for college and professional careers.

The entire political industry had been poised for weeks for a Rick Santorum breakthrough in Michigan, not quite believing it could happen but believing the polls that said it could.

Tributes to boxer Jack Johnson from Miles Davis and Wynton Marsalis; An intimate home recording from Cantinero; A look at opposite day with Andrew Bird; The Who sung a Capella by Petra Haden and more.

Northwest Airlines continues to operate with 1,500 replacement workers covering for 2,900 unionized mechanics and custodians who walked off the job early Saturday morning. Airline officials are claiming victory, but so are union members, who are protesting layoffs and pay cuts.

When sick people search the Web for remedies or tweet about their symptoms, they're sending an early warning signal about disease outbreaks. Now scientists and public health officials are listening in.

Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, is a charismatic figure who has made bold pronouncements in the face of a growing conflict with Israel. Robin Wright of The Washington Post tells Scott Simon more about Nasrallah.

There were riots in Lebanon on Sunday over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published in Denmark this past fall. The Danish consulate in Beirut was torched and property in Christian areas was attacked.