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The undefeated Canadian men's team plays Norway for the curling gold medal on Saturday. By all accounts, Canada has the best curler — some say the best ever. In fact, an opponent recently called Kevin Martin "the Michael Jordan of curling." But can even that comparison get a curling newbie excited about the sport of sliding stones on ice?

Swimming superstar Michael Phelps has apologized for his behavior after a British tabloid splashed a picture of him toking from a marijuana bong at a college party. Are expectations out of whack for top athletes?

Data due out this week will indicate whether the economy is still on its way toward hitting bottom or if it's starting to recover. Things could get better if plans agreed on at last week's G-20 summit are put into action. If commitments are kept, the International Monetary Fund could have as much as a trillion dollars to disburse.

U.S. officials say the security situation is deteriorating. More than 17,000 additional U.S. troops are headed to Afghanistan to try to quash insurgent attacks. But military commanders concede they're facing a complex and increasingly proficient insurgency — and it's not always easy to tell who the enemy is.

Last year, Congress gave President Bush only part of what he'd requested to fund the war. Now, with the domestic economy swooning, the president is asking for the rest — $102 billion — while his top general in Iraq is making no promises on troop drawdowns.

So far, efforts to stop the oil gushing from the ocean floor have failed. BP is now planning to place a 125-ton structure atop the largest leak. If it works, this would cap the leak and funnel the oil up a pipeline to a ship on the surface. This will be the first time a system has been used in such deep waters.

Ash from an Icelandic volcano is causing big and costly disruptions in Europe but, so far, it's nothing compared with the havoc caused by the country's economic eruption a year and a half ago. How can a remote island in the North Atlantic, with only about 320,000 people, be the source of so much damage?

Author and law professor Stephen Carter started reading the novels of John le Carre in college and he hasn't stopped. After all these years, he says his favorite is still Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a Cold War spy story that demonstrates le Carre's marvelous craftsmanship.

Alex Segura's mystery-thriller features a queer Cuban-American artist fighting against the patriarchy and dodging bullets in the desperate, male-dominated world of comics.

Rachel Martin talks with KPCC's Annie Gilbertson about the pending resignation of John Deasy, who had been at the center of a controversial plan to purchase 700,000 iPads for students and teachers.