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  • Adidas is the exclusive licensed maker of NBA uniforms and fan apparel, and Jeremy Lin's New York Knicks jersey is the No. 1 seller online. The California-born Lin is the child of Taiwanese immigrants. Lin jerseys will be ready for sale in China in the next few days, according to Bloomberg News.
  • Former International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who faced a sexual assault charge in New York City last year — a charge that was dropped — is being questioned about an alleged multinational prostitution ring.
  • Pakistani workers at an Air Force factory are making a low-budget tablet computer. With Pakistani engineering and Chinese hardware, they make their version of Apple's iPad. The copy is the PACPAD.
  • Without directly saying so, Comedy Central's funnyman all-but-confirmed Monday night that he was off the air for two days last week because his 91-year-old mother Lorna has been ill.
  • Borrowers claim Quicken charged them "something for nothing" when it included a loan discount fee, even though the borrowers did not receive a lower interest fee. At issue is whether that charge violates a a 1974 federal law aimed at preventing abusive practices in real estate closings.
  • "Danny Vampire" fought for freedom. But now, he says: "Tunisia had an election, Egypt had an election. And Libya? No." What's more, he sees just as much corruption now as before.
  • Family, friends and fans flocked to New Jersey during the weekend for the funeral of Whitney Houston. The music legend was public about her struggle with substance abuse, and her daughter is one of millions who had to cope with that addiction. Host Michel Martin and a panel of parents discuss how parents' addictions affect their kids.
  • In the documentary If a Tree Falls,director Marshall Curry tells the story of the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmentalist group that the FBI once described as America's No. 1 domestic terrorism threat. The film was nominated for an Academy Award.
  • Virginia state legislators passed a bill requiring women to receive an ultrasound — which is conducted via transvaginal probe in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy — before having an abortion. Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate magazine, calls the proposed law "an abomination."
  • New observations show that tectonic activity may still be going on in the moon, which may mean that its core is still cooling.
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