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Scientists have learned that compact fluorescent light bulbs could give off ultraviolet radiation if their inner coating cracks. Light-emitting diodes, another eco-friendly lighting option, won't give you a sunburn, but they do have the potential for other mild health effects.

Also: Flooding forces hundreds of thousands to flee in the Philippines; the U.S. presidential race gets even dirtier; it's gold medal day for women's beach volleyball.

Everyone says it dozens of times a day, from its Boston birthplace to the far reaches of the Earth. It's the word "OK" — the subject of the book "OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word."

The site for a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attack has been unveiled at the Pentagon. The memorial is for the 184 people who died when American Airlines flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called the area just beyond where the plane crashed "sacred ground."

Former U.S. attorney general Janet Reno discusses her latest project, a 50-song compilation of American folk music. The 3-CD collection features songs from 1492 to the present day, and was inspired in part by Reno's desire to share music with her great- nieces and nephews.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo knows small towns well. He writes about them and grew up in one. His new novel, Bridge of Sighs, captures the dilemma of leaving — or staying in — a small town like his own.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Sherwin B. Nuland about his new book Lost in America: A Journey with My Father. It is the story of growing up in the shadow of an immigrant father who cannot make the America dream come true. Nuland describes the relationship between him and his father and the impact that relationship had on Nuland's later years. The book is published by Knopf.

Gas prices just hit a 4-year record, and the price of jet fuel has doubled. NPR speaks to industry executives and energy experts to explain the areas in which Americans are feeling the pinch.

The KALW Music team shares a list of protest songs by artists with ties to the Bay Area, including La Doña, Tracy Chapman, and Linda Tillery.

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."

Expanded guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that parents remove blankets, bumpers, pillows, and toys from a baby's crib to protect them against suffocation and other threats.

How to explain Herman Cain's ascent among Republican presidential candidates?Perhaps a partial reason is that he so far evokes more positive than negative responses among Republicans and GOP leaning independents in a Pew Research Center/Washington Post survey than two other highly touted candidates in the race, Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.