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The Alabama Preservation Alliance and the Alabama Historical Commission have just named historic gas stations across the state "places of peril." Architectural historian Melanie Betz tells Scott Simon what makes these gas stations worth preserving.

Monday, 115 cardinals of the Catholic Church will withdraw into a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. The session, the first in 27 years, will be a blend of Old-World pageantry and state-of-the-art technology.

Ben Berman lost his job as an airline pilot shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Three and a half years later, Berman returns to work behind the controls of a Continental 737.

Commentator Frank Deford says part of the allure of professional sports drafts is trying to predict who will be picked by whom and when.

Two weeks after the death of Pope John Paul II, the process of electing a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church formally begins. The public was invited to Monday morning's Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. But the actual conclave, meeting in the Sistine Chapel, is shrouded in secrecy.

For four years, the National Park Service has been gathering natural sound in dozens of parks across the country. The idea is to protect visitors -- and wildlife -- from unwelcome noise.

In 1965, Robert Moog invented the Moog synthesizer, an electronic keyboard that creates otherworldly sounding electronic music. His instrument went on to usher in a new era of rock and electronic music. The Beatles used a Moog synthesizer on their 1969 Abbey Road album.

Williamstown Theatre Festival in western Massachusetts offers a summer program that has been called "theater boot camp." British-trained actor Roger Rees is the company's new artistic director.

In Seoul, three stories above street level, a cafe caters both to people and to dogs. As the human clientele sip drinks and slurp noodles, the canine clientele eat dog food and just about anything else.

Atlanta's City Council passes an ordinance to ban panhandling within part of downtown Atlanta. Business leaders urged the ban, saying they want more tourists to visit downtown Atlanta. Homeless advocates say the ban is unconstitutional and the city should be doing more to help the homeless. Susanna Capelouto of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports.