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Steve Inskeep and Linda Wertheimer read from listeners' letters. This week, many people wrote in about coverage of 20-somethings who still live at home and about Spanish speakers who live in the United States.

The debut album of Congolese band Konoko No. 1 caught the attention of U.S. audiences. Their rhythms were played on instruments cobbled together from discarded car parts. Now the band joins with other Congolese artists on a new album called Congotronics 2.

A young scientist achieves startling results. A colleague is suspicious. Allegra Goodman's novel Intuition, explores tense relations between researchers in a cancer lab, and the professional passions driving them.

One military spokesman describes the suicides of three Arab men at the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Bay detention center as "an act of asymmetric warfare," not "desperation." Two Saudi detainees and one from Yemen -- all held for years without charges -- were found hanged in separate cells Saturday.

Agraria, a new restaurant in the posh Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., is owned and operated by the North Dakota Farmers' Union. Every ingredient in every dish comes from American family farmers.

There are some books that are so good that you just can't get on with your life until you've turned the last page. Nancy Pearl offers books that make it tempting to call in sick just to be able to read to the end without stopping.

President Bush makes a surprise visit to Baghdad to visit Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president told the new leader and his Cabinet that the future of Iraq is in its citizens' hands, and that it's in the interest of the United States that the mission in Iraq succeeds.

The real estate market in the "new" New Orleans is offering some families the opportunity to buy their dream house. They're moving into neighborhoods that they never thought they could afford.

As sectarian killings surge in Iraq, the Baghdad morgue has also become a deadly place. Sunni families risk being killed when they go to retrieve the bodies of loved ones from the Shiite-run facility. The morgue is now off-limits to journalists.

Military authorities are investigating the precise circumstances of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian al-Qaida figure killed Thursday in Iraq. There are reports that Zarqawi initially survived an air strike by U.S. warplanes.