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When two Bank of America employees reworked the song "One" for a company conference, they could never have known that the video would end up on youtube.com. The song is so bad that it has become an Internet phenomenon, and Universal Music, who owns the rights to the original U2 song, is not amused.

In the last years of the Depression, government photographers traveled the country to capture images of America: at play, at work, and struggling to survive. The black-and-white images that emerged became emblems of the time. But many photographs were also taken in full color -- and those images are now being released in a book, Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43. Hear NPR's Melissa Block.

David Wilcox's most recent album is called "The Way I Tell the Story."

The case revolves around a photo the former FBI director posted online last year of seashells on a beach arranged to say "8647."

Four states have recently passed legislation to limit teaching and assessments via screens for students. So has the United States' second-largest school district.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Jacqueline Smith of the International Transport Workers' Federation about conditions for sailors stranded on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry on Friday took his presidential campaign to Westminster College in the Missouri town of Fulton. The college was the site of the famous "Iron Curtain" speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 and, earlier this week, of an anti-Kerry speech by Vice President Dick Cheney. Kerry said America faces a "moment of truth" in Iraq, and he used the occasion to call on President Bush to broaden the international coalition in Iraq. NPR's David Welna reports

Host Bob Edwards takes a look at the festivities that will occur in schools today, to celebrate Read Across America Day. It appears that many school principals are willing to go to great lengths to get their students to read more.

Etched with Argentine folklore and fueled by the rap batallas of Buenos Aires, Milo J's songs call upon the cumulative spirit of the centuries.

There's no end in sight for the dueling U.S. and Iranian naval blockades. This raises a host of challenges as for the possibility of an extended standoff or a resumption of hostilities.

Air America, the new commercial liberal talk radio network, has been on the air for a little more than a week now. Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine -- the premier trade publication of the commercial talk radio industry -- reviews the network's performance.

The Changing Face of America series brings us a behind-the-scenes visit to Pittsburgh International Airport one winter day. We find out from Airport Operations Director James Maloney how the busy job of getting passengers from one plane to another has changed over the years. We hear how increased passenger loads has taken a toll on the people who work there. The job of getting people where they need to go has strained even the most polite airport personnel. Customers are rude and its hard not to be rude back. But for a lot of the people at the airport, there's still great pleasure in doing their jobs. There's pride in the daily dance of safely getting people on the ground, quickly escorting them and their baggage to another plane, and getting the aircraft ready to fly again. A team of NPR producers collaborated to prepare this sound portrait. (22:00) Find out more at: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/jan/010131.cfoa.html.