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  • San Diego Mayor Bob Filner announces his resignation last week. His last day in office is Friday.
    Filner's Exit Isn't The End Of San Diego's Mayoral Mayhem
    On Friday, embattled Mayor Bob Filner officially steps down. Allegations of sexual harassment against Filner have rocked the eighth-largest American city. Now, San Diegans face a potentially contentious special election in November.
  • Mackenzie Byles graduated in 2010 from Mount Ida College with a degree in Funeral Home Management. She's taking over the family business from her dad, Don.
    Following In The Family Footsteps
    A father prepares to hand over the family business — a funeral home — to his daughter. The business has been in the family for more than a century and she'll be the fourth generation to run it.
  • <a></a>Barry Nalebuff (left) and Seth Goldman cofounded Honest Tea in 1997. Goldman is the company's TeaEO. Nalebuff is a professor at Yale School of Management.
    Honest Tea Founders Tell Their Story Of Not-Too-Sweet Success
    Back in the 1990s, Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff were tired of the super sweet iced teas available in stores. So they started their own company to cater to "more sophisticated, grown-up tastes." They chronicle their adventures and misadventures in a graphic novel called Mission In A Bottle.
  • How Do You Say ...? For Some Words, There's No Easy Translation
    The feeling of solitude in the woods ... the sunlight that filters through trees ... someone who tells a joke so badly that you have to laugh. In English, these things require a whole string of words. Not so in German, Japanese and Indonesian, respectively.
  • Prediction
    Now that we have twerking, our panelists predict what new word we'll learn next.
  • Limericks
    Carl reads three news-related limericks: Lawfully Wedded PayPal, The Rat Race, The Absolut Truth.
  • Typhoon, the Portland, Ore. band led by Kyle Morton, features a dozen musicians playing precise and complicated arrangements.
    Typhoon: Songs For A Lost Childhood
    Kyle Morton, leader of the Portland, Ore. musical collective Typhoon, can trace the start of his songwriting career back to one life-altering bug bite.
  • NBC To Broadcast Britsh Soccer League
    Big-time soccer finally has a major American television contract, but it's not the LA Galaxy or Chicago Fire. Barclays Premier League Football, perhaps the most popular sports league in the rest of the world, includes Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham. Host Scott Simon talks with Sports Business Journal's John Ourand about why NBC Sports Network is airing British football.
  • Contenders Battle In The U.S. Open
    Without real a real American superstar in men's tennis, are U.S. fans losing interest in the game? Howard Bryant of ESPN talks with host Scott Simon about the week in sports.
  • A protester in India chants slogans as she braces herself against the spray fired from police water canons during a protest in December sparked by the gang rape of a 23-year-old paramedical student.
    Teen Gets Three Years In Gang Rape, Murder Of Indian Woman
    The man, who was 17 when the crime took place, is one of six accused in a case that has shocked the nation and sparked international outrage.
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