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The American Film Institute named 10 ten best American movies in 10 different genres. Today's Fresh Air presents interviews with Eva Marie Saint, Robert Towne, Faye Dunaway, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Peter O'Toole — all of whom have work on the list.

One of the world's most famous Christmas trees has arrived. The 12-ton tree was trucked in from Elkton, Md. The lighting ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 1.

A lawyer in Australia had been trying to serve a foreclosure notice to a couple who had defaulted on a home loan. Mark McCormack couldn't find the couple by e-mail, and he couldn't find them at their home. So he turned to Facebook, the popular social networking site. He wanted to serve legal documents to the couple's Facebook page. A court in Australia ruled last week that he may. But by the time the court approved McCormack's request, the couple had removed their Facebook profile from public view.

The president-elect's lunch spot in Chicago serves "Jewish-American steam table cuisine" — although to call kishke, knishes and corned beef "cuisine" is a little like calling sweatshirts "couture."

The singer-songwriter with the weathered but vulnerable delivery has been touring and recording since his 1980 hit, "Romeo's Tune." With a new album out called The Place and the Time, he visited NPR headquarters for a solo performance and interview.

One of the biggest traditional bands in Ireland, Dervish took its act to Lissadell House in County Sligo — a favorite spot of W.B. Yeats — to make a special Christmas recording. Piper Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains and vocalist Roisin O'Reilly guest star.

The jangly opening chord of The Beatles' hit has long frustrated amateur guitarists seeking to replicate it. So a Canadian mathematician used sound-wave analysis to figure it out. It appears that the Fab Four got by with a little help.

After tackling the science of death and theories of the afterlife, Mary Roach takes on the nitty gritty of sexual research. Her latest book takes a curious, funny look at what we do and don't know about coital mechanics.

Cuban mambo musician Israel Lopez, better known as Cachao, died Saturday at 89. He was a bassist and composer credited with bringing mambo music to the United States in the 1950s.

Late-night talk show hosts are having a field day with the presidential candidates, and their jokes have become the subject of some rigorous study. The Center for Media and Public Affairs counted them. Both John McCain and Barack Obama get mocked, but it turns out that McCain gets mocked more.