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When we get free perks we didn't earn, negative feelings can result, according to researchers. Part of the problem? Fellow customers. It helps if they're not around, a new study says.

The 23-year-old jazz phenom's debut album showcases her takes on vintage jazz and blues numbers by Bessie Smith, Fats Waller and others.

This week on Alt.Latino we feature unexpected but delightful blends in music from across the Latin world — courtesy of Kumbia Queers, Bang Data and Leon Larregui from the band Zoe.

Entrepreneurs who want to launch a retail business in the fashion industry have found a more affordable way to do it — by launching food-truck-inspired rolling boutiques.

The Food and Drug Administration says the long list of side effects read rapidly at the end of pharmaceutical ads may be too much for people to grasp. The agency is looking at a streamlined approach.

Also: Judy Blume gets her own holiday; Michael Chabon considers the superhero costume; the best books coming out this week.

John Biewen of American RadioWorks reports on ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. Companies that profit from the Prison boom sponsor ALEC, which in turn lobbies for tougher sentencing - thus bringing more profits to the corrections industry and its suppliers.

Here's a government service: The Federal Trade Commission has told two companies to quit selling caffeinated women's undergarments because they don't actually slim your nether regions as advertised.

Wilbert Rideau went to prison in 1961 at the age of 19 for killing a woman during a bungled bank robbery. Prison changed him. He became the editor of the award-winning prison magazine The Angolite and was released with time served in 2005. His new memoir, In the Place of Justice, describes his 44 years behind bars.

The Navy has been issuing orders and messages in capital letters since the 1850s when teletype machines didn't have lower case. But to young sailors, raised on texting, "all CAPS" signifies shouting.

At Baltimore's "supermax" prison, the warden keeps wayward inmates in line with a bland loaf made from bread, fake cheese, spinach, beans and a host of other unappetizing ingredients. Break the rules, and your menu becomes very simple -- and very tasteless -- for at least a week. Weekend Edition Saturday has the story. (5:00)

More than 60 years after she died at Auschwitz, Irene Nemirovsky's novels are garnering worldwide recognition. For decades, her daughter, Denise, kept the manuscripts in a suitcase. Now that the novels are published, they are closing a chapter for Denise.