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Embattled Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announces changes in the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency deals with major disasters. New measures include a full-time response force and an improved tracking system for supplies.

The Veterinary Genetics Lab at UC-Davis has been called "the CSI of the four-legged world." The lab, directed by Beth Wictum, uses DNA samples from pets and other animals to help solve a variety of crimes.

American sports fans aren't very familiar with many of the top U.S. Winter Olympians, let alone some other international athletes. But in Europe, athletes from all over the world are easily recognized.

Record producer Joel Dorn and photographer Lee Friedlander grew up listening to gospel and blues. Now they've put out a compilation of their favorite gospel songs from the 1950s and 1960s. They tell Debbie Elliott about Gospel Music.

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a fellow hunter during a weekend quail-hunting trip at a Texas ranch. Millionaire attorney Harry Whittington, 78, was peppered with shotgun pellets in the face and chest in the accident Saturday afternoon, but is reported to be in stable condition in a Corpus Christi hospital.

Many of us know Danica McKellar as Winnie on The Wonder Years, or from her recurring West Wing role. But she's also a math scholar who recently proved her own theorem. She talks numbers with Scott Simon and Stanford professor Keith Devlin.

The new book While They're At War is the product of dozens of interviews with husbands and wives of those serving in the military. The stories collected by journalist Kristin Henderson, herself the wife of a veteran, describe wives waiting at home in a haze of anticipatory grief.

David Festa, the director of Oceans Programs at the nonprofit organization, Environmental Defense, talks with Robert Siegel about the conservation work of Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws. Benchley died Saturday at age 65.

At 87, Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdes is busier than ever — and he's getting more recognition than ever before. But just 10 years ago, he was hardly recognized as a lounge pianist in Stockholm.

The Supreme Court rules in favor of Oregon's physician-assisted-suicide law in a 6-to-3 decision. The justices find the state has the right to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for terminally ill, mentally sound patients.