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A new study following premature infants into adulthood finds that some babies who started out weighing less than three pounds grow into remarkably resilient adults. NPR's Rachel Jones reports for All Things Considered.

From the Hollywood sign to Monopoly to the printed T-shirt, NPR kicks off a year-long series looking at the roots of those and other American icons.

NPR's Lisa Simeone speaks with French journalist and sometimes musician Marc Telenne about his new CD Songs for Cabriolets. The man who goes by the pseudonym Karl Zero laughs his way through affectionate spoofs of songs from around the world.

The common image of a barbershop quartet is of white men singing four-part harmony, but the musical form actually emerged from the barbershops and street corners of African-American neighborhoods. In the latest segment of NPR's Present at the Creation series, Jim Wildman reports on the roots and styles of barbershop for Morning Edition.

On Morning Edition: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and NPR's Juan Williams talk about the prospects for Middle East peace, the administration's plans for dealing with Iraq, and the growing global perception of U.S. unilateralism in the war on terror.

In 1959, theater-goers who attended A Raisin in the Sun saw a serious drama about a black family written by a black woman. They had never seen anything like it, Cheryl Corley reports for Morning Edition. Her story is part of NPR's Present at the Creation series.

Filmmaker Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian film. His two documentaries are Dreams Betrayed and Friendly Persuasion: Iranian Cinema After the Revolution. Together, they explore Iranian filmmaking before and after the 1979 revolution. In Iranian films, male and female characters are not allowed to touch, ever, and women must be veiled at all times. Despite these and other limitations, Iranian cinema has garnered international critical acclaim. Akrimi is an associate professor at William Paterson University.

The Smithsonian Institution's photographs -- all 13 million of them -- are being scoured for historical gems that will tell the country's and the institution's history. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports for Morning Edition.

A new play tells the story of "Blind Tom" Wiggins, the slave whose ability to play any piece of music after hearing it only once amazed audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Susanna Capelouto reports for Morning Edition.

John McWhorter's newest book is called The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language. He has written on Ebonics, language and African Americans, and the origins of the Creole Language. His other books include Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America and Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of 'Pure' Standard English. McWhorter is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.