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Iowans are hosting the first statewide presidential test, but their caucus style of voting is different than privately casting a ballot in a booth. NPR offers this guide to the art of the caucus.

With just hours left until the start of the Iowa caucuses, and no clear front-runner in either party, candidates are offering child care, transportation and snow-shoveling to urge Iowans to participate. The candidates are even making appeals online.

A health care board linked to the UAW that owns a controlling stake in now bankrupt Chrysler needs to begin selling shares as soon as possible to raise cash to meet obligations to retired autoworkers, the union's president told NPR.

Matt Harding has been to 70 countries to dance — badly — in front of a camera, and videos of his travels have become an Internet sensation. Harding believes interacting with so many different people challenges him to understand what unites humanity.

More than a dozen colleges and universities have recently received the welcome surprise of millions of dollars in donations. But there is a small catch: The donor insists on complete anonymity, and the colleges have to promise not to try to find out his or her identity.

Israeli warplanes pounded Hamas targets in Gaza for a third day Monday, hitting buildings and key installations linked to the Islamic group as Israel continued a major offensive that has killed more than 300 Palestinians.

Scott Simon reads from listener letters and e-mails.

Detroit should look to Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh for ideas on how to become more innovative and entrepreneurial, according to author and Toronto University's business and creativity professor Richard Florida.

This summer, American University in Cairo is set to open a $400 million campus outside the country's capital. The 260-acre site uses environmentally conscious designs and extensive gardens to keep buildings cool during the day and warm at night.

Listener Holly Dunsworth says she doesn't need faith or hope to believe evolution. The Penn State paleoanthropologist says evolution "just is" — and helps her understand how she came to be and how humans are connected to all living things.