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We hear a lot about the brains of learners. A new book explores the brain processes involved in teaching.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the first day of testimony in the trial of four Los Angeles policemen charged in connection with the corruption and abuse scandal at the L.A.P.D.'s Rampart Division.

British novelist A.S. Byatt. Her novel Possession was a bestseller, and her novella Angels & Insects was turned into an arthouse film. Byatts new novel is The Biographers Tale (Knopf). This interview was recorded before a live audience at the Free Public Library in Philadelphia.

Watch and listen as a Chicago crowd gives Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez the business when he returns to the lineup on the same day he was hit with a 211-game suspension (which he's appealing). A-Rod managed to pop the ball into left field for a hit.

A few intrepid NPR producers -- women all -- gathered recently in Studio 4A in Washington, D.C. to learn the subtle art of belly dancing from professional dancer Artemis. Watch the video, and try it for yourself.

Before the public portion of the impeachment inquiry begins, we're stepping back to get the big picture.

Set in the 17th century, Toni Morrison's new novel A Mercy is the story of a slave girl whose mother gives her away to a stranger in a desperate attempt to secure her a better future. Maureen Corrigan hails the book as a prequel (of sorts) to Morrison's earlier novel Beloved.

By focusing on smaller stores and lower prices, discount grocery store Save-a-Lot has become the second-fastest growing retail food chain in America. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.

The journey of life is made up of a series of choices. But how much do the elements of chance and luck have to play when making those life choices? Author Cristina Garcia explores these ideas in her latest novel, A Handbook to Luck.

Disrupted by a serious bout of pneumonia, Spiritualized frontman Jason Pierce had to wait almost two years to put to disc a collection of songs he'd written in just two weeks. Songs in A&E's intense and emotional songs of survival and near-death experiences are captured here, in a session from WXPN.