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  • In real life, the Cleveland Browns linebacker is 6'2". A glitch in "Madden NFL 15" barely makes him bigger than a football.
  • Jim McIngvale promised that if the Astros won 63 games, he's reimburse the first 500 customers to spend more than $6,3000 at his store. They won 70 games. That promise cost McIngvale $4 million.
  • The manager of Le Petit Syrah in Nice imposed a cost on rudeness. Demand "a coffee," and it's $9.50, in dollars. Say "please," and the price drops to $6. And if you greet the waiter with a friendly "bonjour," the bill comes to $2.
  • The magnitude-6.4 earthquake left 26 people dead. The photographs show stories of life and death, destruction and hope in the quake's aftermath.
  • The catacombs under Paris are the eternal resting place for about 6 million people. Airbnb has a contest offering the winner an overnight stay for two in the bone-lined "bowels of Paris."
  • John Burnett looks at the worst natural disaster in U.S. history: a hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900, killing 6,000 people in the city alone.
  • Actor, writer, and Monthy Python member JOHN CLEESE. Post-Python, CLEESE is best known for "Fawlty Towers," and a number of movies, including his 1988 comedy, "A Fish Called Wanda." He's also written a book called "Families and How to Survive Them" with therapist Robyn Skinner, and he makes training films for corporations. (REBROADCAST FROM 6
  • Jacki talks to Lynda MacCartney, the curator of the C.I.A. exhibit centre in the C.I.A. HQ in Langley Virginia about the new exhibit on the film director John Ford. Ford, who received a total of 6 oscars, worked for the Office for Strategic Services, the precursor to the present-day C.I.A. during World War two. During his work with the OSS Ford pioneered aerial camera techniques that saved many lives and pushed the medium of film in new directions..
  • A concert and interview with SHIRLEY HORN. Playing with her will be drummer Steve Williams and bassist Charles Ables. HORN recorded with Miles Davis and Quincy Jones in the 1960s and sang on the movie soundtrack of "For Love of Ivy." After a hiatus in which she stayed home and raised her daughter, she returned to performing and recording in 1988. Her latest album is "The Main Ingredient" (on Verve). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 6
  • In the first part of a series on female vocalists, NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg profiles singer Stacey Kent. Kent's, new album was inspired by the singing and dancing of Fred Astaire. It's called, Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire. (6:42) Let Yourself Go: Celebrating Fred Astaire by Stacey Kent is available on Candid-Navarre; ASIN: B0000
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