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Baltimore Symphony Conductor Marin Alsop's latest musical adventure muses on a famous meeting between the troubled composer Gustav Mahler and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

For Wal-Mart, the local food movement is a profitable investment for both its balance sheet and its image. Hoping to demonstrate environmental awareness as well as save on freight costs, the company is reaching out to small farms to supply its stores with locally grown produce.

A recent study found that making books available to low-income children had a significant impact on preventing the reading gap. As a child, commentator W. Ralph Eubanks could always count on the air conditioned library on wheels. It helped transform him into a lifelong reader and eventually a writer.

In the 1820s, freed and escaped slaves founded a village in central New Jersey called Timbuctoo. Descendants still live in the area and are helping Temple University archaeologists uncover the history.

Twenty-five percent of Swat's rich croplands were lost to floods. Five weeks into the disaster -- and with no government official in sight -- farmers say their faith in the government's promise to compensate for damages is evaporating. Meanwhile, the distribution of food aid is being held up by red tape.

For years, anti-abortion forces have had a tight focus on Wichita, Kan., largely because of Dr. George Tiller, who performed late abortions. His clinic closed after his recent murder. Activists on both sides of the issue are trying to figure out what's next.

Even though the first decade of this century ended in a disaster for employment, some economists think we'll see the creation of as many as 15 million new jobs in the new decade. Two sectors that are likely to be leaders in producing new jobs: health care and accounting.

Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, speaks to host Michele Norris. Ostrom, a 76-year-old professor of political science at Indiana University, shares the $1.4 million prize with another American — Oliver Williamson of the University of California, Berkeley — for their work on economic governance. Ostrum was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for her research into how natural resources or "common property can be successfully managed by user associations."

After months of debate, the controversial government-sponsored public plan may be dropped from health care overhaul bills. Instead, some are pressing for health co-ops — where the insurance buyers own and run the insurance company — as an alternative way to provide affordable insurance.

While finances at the country's biggest banks have largely stabilized — thanks in large part to government bailouts — smaller regional and community banks are failing at an alarming rate. Dozens have already been shut down this year, and more failures are expected.