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  • Why Health Officials Want You To Eat More Potassium
    The latest nutrition guidelines from the World Health Organization are urging people to amp up their potassium intake. It can cut the risk of high blood pressure — which may, in turn, lower the risk of heart disease and stroke.
  • Score More Dates By Improving Your Credit
    In the past, having a good credit score made you an attractive candidate for credit cards or loans. But did you know your credit score nowadays can also make you an attractive - or unappealing - date? Host Michel Martin finds out why a growing number of singles are asking for more than just a telephone number.
  • Jackie, Lynn and Sue — pictured here at age 7 — are three of the children featured in the landmark 1964 documentary <em>7 Up</em>. The series returns this year with <em>56 Up,</em> checking in with a group of 14 men and women whose lives have been documented since they were kids.
    Michael Apted, Aging With The '7 Up' Crew
    Every seven years since 1964, the director has caught us up on the lives of 14 everyday people in his acclaimed 7 Up series. Apted was 22 when the series began, and the subjects were 7. In the latest episode — 56 Up — the subjects are well into middle age.
  • Reg Presley, Who Sang 'Wild Thing' With The Troggs, Dies
    The 71-year-old singer died at his home in England. If you can play three chords, you can pay him some musical respect.
  • Drawing Your Gun: The Moment And The Aftermath
    In the debate on gun control, self-protection and the protection of others are commonly cited justifications for gun ownership. NPR's Neal Conan talks with guests about what happens when a person draws a gun on another individual.
  • Syrian women walk through a market area in the northern city of Aleppo last November. A new website is documenting the use of rape in the Syrian conflict.
    Tracking Rape In Syria Through Social Media
    Researchers are using data from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media sites. There are, however, questions about the accuracy of the reports coming from Syria.
  • Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric who allegedly played an operational role in al-Qaida, was killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen, along with his 16-year-old son and an alleged propagandist for terror groups. All three were American citizens. Al-Awlaki is shown here in an image taken from a 2010 video posted on radical websites.
    5 Questions About Justice Department Memo On Targeted Killings
    A confidential Justice Department white paper outlines legal theories the Obama administration has used to justify killing American citizens abroad.
  • Human sperm race to fertilize an egg.
    Exercise Can Be Good For The Heart, And Maybe For Sperm, Too
    A study finds that guys who watched a lot of TV had lower sperm counts than more active fellows. The effect held true even when other factors, such as body weight and diet, were taken into account.
  • Joe Takach comforts his friend Lillian Landry, as she spends her last days in the hospice wing of a hospital in Oakland Park, Fla., in 2009.
    Aggressive Care Still Common For Dying Seniors, Despite Hospice Uptick
    Even as deaths in acute-care hospitals declined in recent years, the use of intensive care units in the last month of life increased. There has been greater use of hospice care, but much of it was for three days or less at the very end of life, a study finds.
  • An authentic master of ninjutsu martial art, Kazuki Ukita poses in Ninja costume at the Ninja museum's Ninja residence in the small ancient city of Ueno.
    Did Ninjas Use Throwing Stars? A Conversation About Ninja Realities
    A new book about ninjas paints a very different picture of these Japanese archetypes. No nunchucks, no throwing stars, and it was more about spycraft than fancy footwork.
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