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Adam Posen, deputy director and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, discusses how the weak U.S. dollar, the American real estate market and consumer confidence are affecting the U.S. and global economy. Posen talks with Robert Siegel.

The Bush administration has imposed new rules for the State Children's Health Insurance Program that state officials say may result in loss of coverage for thousands of kids. Congress has been working to renew the program, which is set to expire at the end of next month.

There's an unusual job fair taking place this week, but you can't get there by plane or car, or drop off your resume in person. You have to travel in cyberspace — to the popular virtual world called Second Life.

In their fast-approaching fall migration, birds will face numerous obstacles as they head south. Nighttime fliers can get confused by all the urban lights and crash into skyscrapers. In Chicago, a group called the Chicago Bird Collision Monitors has partnered with doormen and building managers to help the birds flying south.

Michael Vick made a public apology Monday after formally entering a guilty plea to a dogfighting conspiracy charge. He apologized to the NFL and to his team, the Atlanta Falcons, and said he would redeem himself.

Grace Paley, an iconic and idiosyncratic American literary voice, died Wednesday. She was 84, and had battled breast cancer. Paley wrote short stories and poems, and much of her writing was inspired by the people she knew growing up in New York, the daughter of Russian Jews. Her first collection of stories, The Little Disturbances of Man: Stories of Men and Women at Love, was published in 1959. She spoke to Terry Gross in 1985.

This week's Science out of the Box question — What Makes Sticky Things Stick --was inspired by a recent article about a synthetic adhesive combining the properties that allow geckos to cling to a wall and mussels to cleave to a rocky shore. Jerry Bell, a senior scientist with the American Chemical Association, reveals the basic chemistry of these phenomena.

Karl Rove, the White House political adviser who is leaving his job at the end of August, professed to have better information than anybody. On Election Day in 2004, Rove phoned his fellow Republicans, and told them to ignore exit polls suggesting President Bush would lose. He was right.

In France's Bordeaux wine region, summers have been hotter, harvests have been earlier and grapes have been sweeter. Some winemakers welcome a warmer climate; they are getting more great vintages. Others are more wary, but say they can adapt.

The Bush administration castigated Congress on Friday for not passing comprehensive immigration legislation and proposed rules that would require employers to fire people whose Social Security numbers don't match that agency's records.