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With marriage upcoming, Cinema Wood sought advice from an expert: her grandmother, Peggy Edwards, who was married for more than 50 years. The two recorded their talk at a StoryCorps mobile booth.

Actress Claire Danes is starring in the new film Shopgirl opposite Steve Martin, who wrote the screenplay for the film and the novel it's based on.

On Sunday, Russian state TV will show the first episode of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle. It's the first televised adaptation of the novelist's work to be shown in his native country.

Alan Greenspan chairs his last meeting of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee Tuesday and then retires from the central bank after 18 years. Observers give him generally high marks.

The new Medicare prescription drug plan is complex, confusing, and irrational, according to health policy expert Jonathan Oberlander. A month after the rollout of the new Medicare prescription drug plan, many seniors are finding it difficult to get the drugs they need.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush set forth goals including more science and math teachers, more tax cuts and less dependence on oil from the Middle East. The president called on lawmakers to set aside divisiveness, but he also took the fight directly to his critics -- especially on his policies in Iraq.

Women with a history of major depression who stop taking their medication during pregnancy have a high likelihood of relapse. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association counters earlier thinking that pregnancy protects women from depression.

Rock journalist Bob Spitz's new biography of the Beatles is decidedly not prettified: venereal disease, drugs, and bad business are all part of the story of the Fab Four. The book is The Beatles: The Biography.

Drugmaker Merck announces plans to slash 7,000 jobs -- 11 percent of its workforce -- and close five plants by the end of 2008. Merck's troubles include thousands of lawsuits related to its painkiller Vioxx and the impending loss of patent protection of one of its most profitable drugs, Zocor.

Middle East expert Edward S. Walker discusses U.S. policy so far toward Hamas and how Wednesday's election may affect that policy. Walker is president and CEO of the Middle East Institute and former Assistant Secretary of State of Near Eastern Affairs and ambassador to Israel.