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Six months after Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, six books have already been published about the scandal. Four came out just last month. They cover much of the same ground — with some exceptions.

Ten years after SpongeBob SquarePants made its debut on Nickelodeon, the show continues to be a phenomenal hit. President Obama, Scarlett Johansson and LeBron James are among the character's legion of fans.

Melissa Block and Michele Norris read from listeners' letters about birds and planes, the White House Butler Corps and the cold in North Dakota.

The first law signed by President Barack Obama is named for a 70-year-old Alabama grandmother, Lilly Ledbetter. The new law reverses a 2007 Supreme Court decision that set strict time limits on pay discrimination suits. Ledbetter was joined at the White House by prominent women in both parties.

Traffic through Egypt's Suez Canal was up slightly in March, but earnings have been steadily down this year. Last fall, piracy in the Gulf of Aden was seen as a serious threat to the canal, but now economists say it's clear that the global economic downturn is doing more damage.

Mark O'Connor's new Americana Symphony follows the spirit of America's historic westward expansion and the music it engendered. The fiddler says he's trying to identify something long overlooked in classical music — our native language.

Listeners weigh in on the government's decision to help hospitals shift medical records online, and wonder whether the story of the Three Stooges film adaptation is fact or fiction. Robert Siegel reads from listeners' e-mails.

Today's pirates have implications far beyond the safety of mariners. What about the Halloween costume manufacturers? Long John Silver's? Johnny Depp? Humorist Brian Unger discusses the huge cultural shift that Americans must undergo as we embark on the modern Global War on Pirates.

Listeners respond to Wednesday's feature about the prevalence of noisy restaurants, and to an interview with the author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.

Joe Buford, 63, has a high school diploma but kept a secret, even from his family: He couldn't read. He managed to fool others into thinking that he could. And he was terrified that his inability would be passed on to his kids.