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Commentator Elizabeth Gilbert, who is the author of the new book Eat, Pray, Love, recalls a trip to Naples, Italy that helped restore her love of pleasure after a painful divorce.

Firefighters in the Texas panhandle continue their efforts to contain grass fires that have burned almost one million acres. However, Wednesday's strong winds that sent flames marching 40 miles to the northeast have died down.

U.S. and Iraqi forces launch what the military describes as the largest air assault since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The U.S. military says Operation Swarmer is aimed at clearing "a suspected insurgent operating area" northeast of Samarra.

It is the Zapruder film of birding: Four seconds of what some scientists say is proof that the ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct. Now, skeptics have deconstructed every frame and say the bird caught on film is just a common pileated woodpecker.

In the Horn of Africa, a drought is killing livestock across a wide swath of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. The United Nations estimates that more than 6 million people in the region are at risk of running out of food and water as a result of the drought if aid doesn't arrive soon.

In 1961, the Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. Their efforts transformed the civil rights movement. Raymond Arsenault is the author of 'Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice'.

Right-to-life activists have hailed Judge Alito's nomination from the beginning. Mary Spaulding Balch, state legislative directory of the National Right to Life Committee, discusses what will happen to Roe v. Wade if Alito makes it to the Supreme Court.

Dr. James Bernat, a professor of neurology at Dartmouth Medical School, says that a drug-induced coma can be a helpful tool to lower intracranial pressure. He talks about how and when doctors administer the procedure.

It's a time of upheaval in the U.S. House, amid lobbying scandals and the indictment of former Majority Leader Tom DeLay on campaign finance charges. Melissa Block talks to Walter Shapiro, Washington bureau chief for Salon.com, about the race among three House Republicans seeking to succeed DeLay in the majority leader's post.

Melissa Block talks with Karl Vick of The Washington Post in Tehran about reaction in Iran to threats of sanctions if Iran continues its nuclear program.