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  • Peggy Ivie, right, is a dancer.
    Dancing In The Dark In Nashville, Tenn.
    Peggy Ivie teaches merengue, waltz and East Coast swing at the Tennessee School for the Blind.
  • A sculpture by the artist Bonifatius Stirnberg memorializes the victims of thalidomide, a drug that caused thousands of birth defects. A translation of the German text below the chairs: "In memory of the dead and the survivors of the thalidomide catastrophe."
    Thalidomide Maker Apologizes After More Than 50 Years
    More than a half-century after a German drugmaker took thalidomide off the market because of birth defects, the company said it was sorry. The occasion was the dedication of a memorial to the victims near the company's headquarters. The sculpture features a girl with malformed feet and no arms.
  • Afternoon Round-Up 8/31/12
    Today on NPR: Harvard University is investigating 125 students for possible cheating on a final exam last spring.Business:Henry County Medical Center…
  • Sophia Greenwalt in a hat.
    Helping Hats In Reeds Spring, Mo.
    Helping Hats, run by a 13-year-old, raises money for charities in the community.
  • Graduates attend a ceremony at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Writer Joel Kotkin notes that many recent college grads are saddled with high debt and dim job prospects.
    Are Today's Millennials The 'Screwed Generation'?
    U.S. student loan debt tops $1 trillion, and young people face disproportionately high unemployment. Writer Joel Kotkin points to these numbers when he claims the millennial generation is getting the short end of the stick. Kotkin speaks with host Michel Martin about what he calls the "screwed generation."
  • Research shows that under certain circumstances, we can train ourselves to forget details about particular memories.
    Can We Learn To Forget Our Memories?
    Our capacity to forget is as important, and certainly as interesting, as our ability to remember. But can we train ourselves to suppress certain memories, or the meaning we attach to life events?
  • Omm Ahmed, a refugee from Daraa, Syria, carries her infant near her tent at Zaatari Refugee Camp in Mafraq, Jordan, on Sunday. Syrian civilians have borne the greatest brunt of the conflict in their country.
    With No End To Conflict In Sight, No Winners In Syria
    August was the deadliest month yet, with thousands of people, mostly civilians, killed in fighting around the country. While anti-government rebels are making advances, government troops are digging in their heels.
  • MSU Falls to FSU at Tallahassee in football season opener
    MurrayState kicked off its 88th football season Saturday on the road with a 69 to 3 loss to Number 7-ranked Florida State in Tallahassee. It was the first…
  • Alarming growth of KY drug-addicted newborns
    A recent report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says the number of Kentucky newborns hospitalized for drug addiction passed…
  • Vernissage is trying to revamp boxed wine to attract a more sophisticated customer.
    No More Shame: Boxed Wine Now Comes In A High-End Fashion Purse
    Boxed wine suffers a reputation for being cheap and generally lousy. Plus, a box can't really compete visually with a sleek glass bottle. So a Swedish company has reshaped the box into a purse, for easy transport and improved lines.
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