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Boats and helicopters are being used to search for people stranded by floodwaters in southwestern Louisiana. Sunday in low-lying areas of Vermilion Parish, less than 100 miles from the Texas border, rescue workers are hoping to remove the last of those who stayed behind. Beth Fertig of member station KRVS reports.

At the New World Symphony in Miami, the challenge for young classical musicians finishing a three-year program is to find a new job in their profession. Ari Shapiro has watched the progress of symphony members over the past year. In the last of a three-part series, he reports on the challenges of transition.

In the second of a two-part story, NPR's John Ydstie continues his report on U.S. soldiers wounded in the war in Iraq. Ydstie focuses on how soldiers who have lost limbs are being fitted with high-tech artificial limbs and learning how to use them.

Daniel Alarcon was born in Peru and raised in Alabama. His fiction reflects the cross pollination of those two cultures which he says is just a small part of a larger global trend of mobility and intermixing. His first book of stories in called War by Candlelight. Martha Woodroof of NPR station WMRA reports.

Mars' longer days make for a topsy-turvy schedule for the scientists here on Earth operating the two NASA rovers exploring the planet. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

The first official commercials for President Bush's re-election campaign appear Thursday on cable television in more than a dozen states. The ads, in English and Spanish, emphasize Bush's leadership, the war on terrorism and the economy, but they don't mention his all-but-official Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Peruvians are embracing the music of Peru Negro, a group of performers formed to preserve the country's African musical heritage. At first, many white Peruvians were wary of the group's music, but now black Peruvian music is in vogue and playing a role in shaping the country's social agenda. Rolando Arrieta reports.

The federal government has just issued the largest survey to date of Americans' use of complementary and alternative medicine. The findings compile data on who uses alternative treatments like echinacea and acupuncture, and why. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold presents the second of two reports on the debate over removing wolves from the Endangered Species List. Bringing back wolves to the protected habitat in Yellowstone National Park has been an unquestionable success. But once they move out of park boundaries, not everyone is pleased with the success.

Independent producer Jon Kalish has this report on the New York City imagined by author Nicholas Rinaldi in his new novel Between Two Rivers. Rinaldi's story revolves around the residents of a fictitious condo building in lower Manhattan.