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In Fennville, Mich., the Journeyman Cafe earned top reviews as a local restaurant serving sustainable, organic food. In November, state tax authorities closed the Journeyman. Its founders and chefs say there was not enough money left over to pay taxes.

One of the top executives of the One Laptop Per Child project, a nonprofit that has created an inexpensive laptop for children in the Third World, has left to form a for-profit company that will market some of the technologies she developed.

A most unlikely CD has been close to the top of the Billboard charts recently. The Mars Volta, from Texas, somehow missed the news that progressive rock was nearly extinct. Their new CD, Frances the Mute, is a saga based on the diary of a child in search of a birth mother.

Temple Grandin is one of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities. She is also autistic. Grandin's new book is Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.

The death toll for U.S. troops in Iraq tops 80 today -- the highest of any month this year. With the mid-term elections two weeks away, President Bush is signaling his administration will be making course corrections.

Top high school prospects must now wait at least a year after graduating before entering the NBA draft. The league says players benefit from the experience. But it may be more about marketing.

Six Tibetan teenagers trek to the top of the 23,000-foot-high Lhakpa Ri peak, on the north side of Mount Everest — a trek that might well be worthy of documenting even if the climbers weren't blind.

Hurricane Ivan moves inland along the Gulf Coast, spawning tornadoes, causing flooding and tearing beach houses from their foundations. Its top winds have dropped to 80 mph, but the storm remains dangerous. Hear NPR's Jon Hamilton.

NPR's Juan Williams talks with Paul Bremer, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, about the Bush administration's new timetable for a transfer to Iraqi self-rule. The new plan calls for an end to U.S. occupation of the country by June 2004.

Last weekend, members of a campaign called "Enough Is Enough" rallied at the homes of two top TV executives. They are demanding that BET and MTV stop airing what they call demeaning portrayals of blacks and women.