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  • Police take the man who shot Pope John Paul II back into custody after an appeals court ordered him to return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist and for other crimes in Turkey.
  • Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, discusses what kind of information search engines keep about users' searches.
  • Thanksgiving can turn into a nightmare when your best-laid plans go awry in the kitchen. That's where Christopher Kimball can help. He is the creator of Cook's Illustrated Magazine and hosts the PBS television show America's Test Kitchen.
  • Jimmie Dale Gilmore's new album — his seventh — is called Come on Back and it's a memorial to his late father. He died of ALS in 2000. The album includes version of his dad's favorite songs like Pick Me Up on Your Way Down and Walkin' The Floor Over You. Gilmore was born, raised and lives in Texas. He has been recording solo albums since 1988, when he released Fair and Square.
  • Some artists from New Orleans say Hurricane Katrina will mark a turning point in their careers, and not only because it ruined some of their work. They say the altered visual and cultural landscape of the city will affect the art they have yet to make. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.
  • This Thanksgiving, the tastes of New Orleans will be missing or difficult to find for families now living far from their favorite Cajun or Creole spices. That's the case for a couple who evacuated from New Orleans and are spending Thanksgiving in Mount Rainier, Md.
  • That holiday tree in your living room seems fresh, but it was probably plucked from the farm earlier this month. Tom Banse has an insider's look at the industrial operation to bring trees to market.
  • As a chemical spill in the Songhua River heads toward Russia's Far East, the nearly 4 million people of Harbin, China, do without running water for a fourth day. The BBC's Louisa Lim tells Scott Simon that Chinese newspapers are criticizing the central government's slow response to the disaster.
  • The new film Walk the Line is based on the life of legendary musician Johnny Cash. We begin a two-day look at the life of the much-celebrated "Man in Black" with an interview with Cash himself. This interview originally aired on Nov. 4, 1997.
  • Although cellist Matt Haimovitz was raised in the United States, he was born in the Middle East to Romanian parents. His new CD, Goulash, explores his family's heritage. Music critic Tom Manoff says that it also touches on an ongoing debate about the future of classical music.
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