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Commentator Julie Zickefoose likes to stop and visit with one of her neighbors in the rural part of Ohio where she lives: Buck, an enormous Angus bull. He has taught her much about the nature of life, death and friendship.

When people think of New Orleans, they often think of food. Before Katrina, the restaurant industry was one of the city's largest employers. But two months after the hurricane, only about one in six of the city's restaurants have reopened.

The Elements of Style, E.B. White and William Strunk's classic manual on writing and usage, can now be seen and heard. A new edition features illustrations by Maira Kalman, while composer Nico Muhly offers a musical adaptation.

Millions of people listen to J. Ralph's music, yet he's far from a household name. The 29-year-old musician's dreamy, hypnotic compositions have become seemingly ubiquitous in commercials, appearing in ads for Volkswagen, Nike and others. Now they are collected on a new CD.

David Greenberger travels the country talking with older people and collecting their stories. In Chattanooga, Tenn., Edna Wofford told him about knowing a bit too much about the future. A collection of stories is on the CD The Mayor of Tennessee River: Music By Shaking Ray Levis.

Michele Norris talks with Natasha Richardson, lead actress in the new film Asylum, which was adapted from the book by Patrick McGrath. Richardson plays Stella, the wife of an accomplished psychiatrist. She falls obsessively in love with a patient at her husband's institution. Richardson and Norris discuss the psychology of the attraction as seen in the film as well as the background behind the film, including the role Richardson's real-life husband, Liam Neeson, played in its development.

In Fort Worth, Texas, Monday night, Bobby Bragan made history as the oldest man to have managed a professional baseball game. He was ejected in the early innings for arguing balls and strikes with the plate umpire.

Israeli army and police work to evict Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. Settlers and Jewish protesters resisted the eviction in many places, but a number of the settlements are now empty, and Israeli officials say the operation is going more quickly than expected.

A new book uncovers the research of John Work, who accompanied folklorist Alan Lomax on a trip to the Mississippi Delta in the early 1940s. They documented the music heard in churches, blues joints and cotton fields of the South.

Friday is one of the year's busiest shopping days. If you want to get a jump on things, Target is offering to wake you up. And if it's still too early for December holidays, you can send the Thanksgiving e-card that American Greetings says is the most popular electronic greeting card ever.