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Lars Hoel reports on two pun-loving session musicians, Mark Stewart and Rob Schwimmer, who have a New York club act they call The Polygraph Lounge.

Journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell has written a new book, The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin. Shell is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Discover and other publications. She's an associate professor and co-director of Knight Center for Science Journalism at Boston University.

It's a tableau of biblical proportions, from the Nativity scene, to the tomb of Jesus, to the site of Mary's annunciation. Replicas of Christian shrines are on display at a Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. NPR's Jacki Lyden visits Holy Land of America.

After the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup flopped, the talk around Hollywood was that America's most popular comedy team was washed up. But their follow-up, A Night at the Opera, became their biggest hit. Jeff Lunden looks behind the curtain of the 1935 classic as part of the Present at the Creation series on cultural icons.

A few years ago, little pocket monsters -- Pokemon -- arrived from Japan and quickly became one of the most valuable animated properties in history. Now, there's a new monster on the block. As NPR's Susan Stone reports, one of Japan's most popular comic books is poised to take American teens by storm.

In the early 1940s when the Army Air Force faced a shortage of pilots, it launched an experimental program to train new ones — the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

Six days a week, Beth Simon rides the city buses in her Pennsylvania city. If they ran on Sundays, she would ride them then, too. Beth Simon is 42 and has mental retardation. She's not trying to get anywhere on the buses; she's turned them into a community. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

In a holiday hurry? Get ready to cook up a Christmas meal in no time at all, with some unlikely -- but speedy -- ingredients from baby food jars and soup cans. NPR's Linda Wertheimer reports takes on some time-saving recipes and NPR Online has them.

Starting Dec. 16, the U.S. military has been broadcasting "information radio" to the people of Iraq, from a special-equipped transport plane outside Iraqi air space. Scott Simon discusses the messages -- similar to those transmitted to Afghanistan in Fall 2001 -- with Mike Linstead of BBC Monitoring, which intercepted the broadcasts.

Morning Edition presents its first original radio play, I'd Rather Eat Pants, written by Peter Ackerman and produced by L.A. Theatre Works. The five-act play, starring Edward Asner and Anne Meara, is a comic tale of an elderly couple's cross-country trek on a young slacker's motorcycle. They're in search of fame, fortune and a whole lot more. NPR's Bob Edwards and Susan Stamberg have cameo roles. Part four of Morning Edition's five-part original radio drama I'd Rather Eat Pants.