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By moseying into action as he munched away, a guy now known only as "Snackman" helped calm things down on a New York City subway train. Watch as he casually crunched away.

The financial overhaul "is not what anyone would want," he said today. But "something had to be done."

In the film We Need To Talk About Kevin, Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton plays the mother of a disturbed and manipulative son. Kevin systematically undermines his parents' marriage as he gets older — and then goes on a horrific, Columbine-reminiscent killing spree.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have devised a different way to count our days — with a leap week every few years to keep the calendar on track.

Damian Scarf at New Zealand's University of Otago reports in the current issue of the journal Science that experiments he conducted with colleagues show that pigeons can learn abstract rules about numbers.

How does unlimited vacation time sound? For workers at a company in the metro D.C. area, that policy is now a reality. Guest host Jacki Lyden has more.

From Los Angeles, another story in the "Robbers In The Wrong Place, At The Wrong Time" category.

Home construction is still running at a pace about half of what would happen in a healthy housing market.

New Orleans' Armstrong Park re-opened Friday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. Guest host Linda Wertheimer reflects as people are able once again to enjoy some of the Crescent City's unique charm.

Police have closed down dozens of toy shops for selling Barbie dolls in Iran, part of a decades-long crackdown against "manifestations of Western culture." Host Scott Simon looks at what's being called a "cultural Trojan horse."