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Culture coach Valorie Burton gives advice on what to say — and what not to say — to a friend who's recently lost his or her job.

When Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was an infant, her family was told she would become a great woman. But assuring words, unfortunately, were not enough to shield Africa's first woman president from a life of hardship, which included an abusive marriage.

Champion bike racer Lance Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs to win his record seven consecutive Tour de France victories, according to a new book. David Walsh, a sports journalist and author of From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France, talks with Steve Inskeep.

Violent crimes are on the rise across America for the second year in a row, according to a new FBI report. Some argue that an increase in violent acts by teenagers is a public health issue. Advocates discuss applying their unique approach to the streets of Chicago.

Sixty-eight percent of all web searches take place on Google.com. But as journalist Randall Stross found when researching his new book, Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, the company's business extends well beyond basic web searches.

Some of the most vulnerable victims of the hurricane in Haiti are known as "Restavecs," children given away by their own families to perform domestic labor in exchange for food and shelter. Jean-Robert Cadet, an author and former child laborer, describes his own childhood experience and his work with Haitian "restavecs".

In her new book, Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans.

Sister and brother Maggie and Tyler Heath blend joy and pain in ways that ring true.

The Texas alt-country outfit has been spoofing politics, religion and romance for as long as most Austinites can remember.

The Serbian guitarist fell in love with American blues music as a kid — well before she could understand the words.