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  • CEO Marchionne Drives Chrysler's Dramatic Turnaround
    With the global auto industry gathered in Detroit this week for the city's renowned auto show, Renee Montagne talks to Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne about his company's stunning turnaround, manufacturing overseas and a Chrysler IPO.
  • Owens Lake — which dried up after losing its water source, the Owens River, to Los Angeles — is known to be a source of air pollution. The city of L.A. is in court over obligations to control dust pollution at the lake.
    Owens Valley Salty As Los Angeles Water Battle Flows Into Court
    Almost 100 years ago, a water-supply diversion from Owens River helped quench Los Angeles' thirst some 200 miles away. L.A. thrived, but it drained the Owens Lake and created a salt flat that now pollutes the air. A century later, the finger-pointing continues, and this week, the city's water department is back in court over its cleanup plan.
  • Panel Round Two
    More questions for the panel: Speaking In Tongues, The Curse of Lipitor's Tomb, and Broad Appeal.
  • Edith Windsor in her New York City apartment in December 2012. Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court hears her challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
    Meet The 83-Year-Old Taking On The U.S. Over Same-Sex Marriage
    Edith Windsor's challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act will be heard by the Supreme Court next week. When her wife died, Windsor had to pay $363,000 in estate taxes because the federal government did not recognize their marriage. "If Thea was Theo," she says, "I would not have had to pay."
  • Anchor Chris Hayes will host a new MSNBC weeknight show beginning April 1.
    Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night
    After hosting his Sunday morning show on MSNBC for the past year and a half, Hayes is making the move to a weeknight news show that premieres April 1. At 34, Hayes will be the youngest prime-time anchor on any of the major cable news channels.
  • Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe talks to a group of newly admitted students on the campus in Claremont, Calif. Klawe has had a great deal of success getting more women involved in computing.
    How One College Is Closing The Computer Science Gender Gap
    At Harvey Mudd College in California, about 40 percent of the computer science majors are women. That's far more than at any other co-ed school. And it's thanks in large part to the school's president, Maria Klawe. She has worked hard to keep women interested in computer science and empower them to succeed in the field.
  • In an episode of <em>Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee</em> called "Larry Eats A Pancake," Jerry Seinfeld has coffee with Larry David.
    So Jerry Seinfeld Called Us To Talk About Coffee
    After years of not understanding coffee, Jerry Seinfeld says he's finally discovered the delight of meeting someone over a cup. "You have coffee and for some reason it makes you talk a lot," he says.
  • MIT Senseable City - "The Connected States of America"
    A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map Of America
    Put away that old Rand McNally map — it's time for a new way to see what America really looks like.
  • A health worker collects pigeons from a trap at People's Square in Shanghai, China, earlier this month. So far, workers have tested more than 48,000 animals for the H7N9 flu virus.
    With Bird Flu, 'Right Now, Anything Is Possible'
    An international team of disease detectives are in China to investigate an outbreak of a new strain of bird flu, H7N9. The biggest puzzle right now is where these infections are coming from, as testing poultry has turned up very few infected birds.
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard's <em>Oddychajaca</em> is currently on view in Manhattan at the Museum of Art and Design's exhibit "Against the Grain." "I don't want the cuteness associated with the wood," she says, "or even the nostalgia."
    When Sculpting Cedar, This Artist Is Tireless And Unsentimental
    Ursula von Rydingsvard is 70 years old, but she still spends eight hours a day working massive blocks of cedar into sculptures. "I don't want the cuteness associated with the wood," she says, "or even the nostalgia."
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