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Hundreds of artworks were destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center. One man is trying to save what he can.

In the second part of his year-long series on life at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, NPR's Robert Smith looks at the Roughriders' football team and its losing record against better financed, better supported suburban teams.

Junoon may be the biggest band you've never heard of. The Pakistan-based trio is the hottest band in South Asia, mixing Western rock with traditional folk stylings and Islamic Sufi mysticism. Weekend All Things Considered talks to songwriter Salman Ahmad about fanaticism, peace and the unifying force of rebellious music.

Susan Stamberg's annual Thanksgiving tradition of reading her mother-in-law's recipe for cranberry relish on the air nearly came to an end this year. But patriotic spirit kept it alive.

An appreciation of author and cultural icon Ken Kesey, who died this morning at the age of 66 in California. Kesey's 1962 book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and his psychedelic exploits as one of the Merry Pranksters became emblems of the age.

In April, 2001, Cincinnati was rocked by three days of rioting after a young black man was shot and killed by a cop. All Things Considered host Noah Adams reports that six months later, the racial divide is still as wide as ever.

Food writer Patricia Wells has lived in Paris for 20 years, dining in the city's finest restaurants. Now she has a cookbook showcasing those restaurants' recipes. All Things Considered host Linda Wertheimer talks to Wells about her new Paris Cookbook. (5:15) The publisher is Harper Collins; ISBN # 0060184698.

Sun Records recording legend Sam Phillips says "the great association between country music and black blues" struck a chord that led to his success.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair visits a museum with a long-planned exhibit that has suddenly become more timely: artistic reflections on the nature of war and the hope for peace.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that, according to a paper published in the journal Nature, ancient Egyptians prepared mummies in ways more sophisticated than previously thought. Researchers say they used embalming materials such as plant oils, tree resin and beeswax to preserve the bodies.