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Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

A flood protection project under way in New Orleans will come at the expense of Bucktown, a neighborhood that was home to both the well-known Sid-Mar restaurant and to commercial fishermen.

Johnnie Cochran, the attorney who gained fame as O.J. Simpson's defense lawyer in 1995, has died at age 67. Cochran's family says he had a brain tumor. Michele Norris talks about Cochran's life and career with Connie Rice, a Los Angeles civil rights attorney who is co-founder and co-director of the Advancement Project.

The federal budget deficit has declined somewhat, according to new numbers released by the Congressional Budget Office. An increase in tax revenues caused the latest 2005 budget projections to cut the estimated deficit by $88 billion.

One nonprofit in Tulsa has flipped the script on preschool. The Community Action Project says its premise simple: To help kids, it says, you often have to help their parents.

An enormous work of art opens Saturday in New York's Central Park. The Gates Project is the brainchild of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The husband-and-wife team's work consists of 7,500 squared arches topped with orange flags.

From hot dogs to ice cream and bread, Americans love their food. But it can sometimes mean more than a simple meal. A competitive eater and a child of the 1930s weigh in, as part of the StoryCorps oral history project.

Project Billboard, a fledgling non-partisan group whose mission is to stimulate public debate, files a preliminary injunction against Clear Channel in a New York court. The group is trying to force the media giant to run its ad on a prime billboard in Times Square. Clear Channel allegedly rejected it because of its anti-war political message. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

A new Art in Public Places display is dedicated at the Southside Library.