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In a speech at the National Press Club, PBS President and Chief Executive Officer Pat Mitchell declared the importance of independence from political influence for public broadcasters. Mitchell said CPB's drive to bring "balance" to PBS and NPR is unjustified and unwise.

Laptop computers spawn a new kind of musical competition: the laptop battle. DC9, a smoky nightclub in downtown D.C. recently hosted one of these cyber-music showdowns.

The author of The Time Traveler's Wife says she has always been attracted to themes of death and dying. Audrey Niffenegger's new novel, Her Fearful Symmetry, features identical twin sisters living in a haunted London flat.

Thicke says many of the songs on his new album were inspired by his wife, actress Paula Patton.

Almost as soon as an obstruction-of-justice conviction was read for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, conservatives began calling on President Bush to pardon the former White House aide. Libby was convicted of lying to obstruct an investigation into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.

Details are still emerging about the U.S. operation that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and five other people. U.S. military spokesman William Caldwell says the final phase of the hunt for Iraq's most wanted man began weeks ago. Caldwell added that Zarqawi is assumed to have named a successor.

When commentator Daniel Pinkwater goes for a meal at a neighborhood Chinese restaurant, the owner treats him like family. And when she brings an amazing dish, he devours it. But she cannot tell him anything about it: not its name, what it is called in Chinese or English; nothing.

Businesses improve when they experiment with new structures and formulas — and then actively analyze their mistakes, Tim Harford says. In Adapt, his new book, the Financial Times columnist examines the merits of failure.

Gabriel Tallent's debut novel has been called a masterpiece on the level of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's the difficult story of a young girl living in the California woods with her abusive father.

Josh Wolf has spent more than two months in prison for refusing to turn over to federal prosecutors unedited video he shot of a protest. Prosecutors say the footage could help produce witnesses to a crime. Wolf says he's a journalist who shouldn't be forced to turn over material.