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The trademark illustrations in The Wall Street Journal look like engravings. But they're actually intricate pointilist portraits. Petra Mayer visits stipple artist Noli Novak at her New Jersey studio.

More than 13,070 U.S. troops have been injured in Iraq, with just over half of those injured unable to return to duty. One recovering soldier is 32-year-old Robert Bartlett, an Army scout with the 3rd Infantry Division, whose face and hands were badly injured by a roadside bomb in May.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine in D.C. is not for the squeamish. Founded in 1862, the museum displays everything from a large human hairball to skull fragments from Abraham Lincoln.

David Izzard mailed the vinyl back to the Kansas City Public Library in good condition, according to WDAF-TV. He was lucky to be six decades late. In 2019, the library got rid of late fees.

Among Katrina's victims was Shearwater, an art and pottery complex. The belongings of the Anderson family, known for the late watercolor painter Walter Inglis Anderson, were badly damaged.

The documentary Festival Express captures a 1970 train tour across Canada with Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and other music icons. Director Bob Smeaton talks to NPR's Liane Hansen.

Liliya Karimova is a young Tatar woman from Kazan, Russia, currently living in the United States. A graduate student in Kansas, she has been struggling to understand her ethnic and religious background.

In a well-explored part of the Pacific, researchers have discovered a novel species of worm. The female tube worms live with dozens of males and food-providing bacteria inside them. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

Wright completed the 100 meter dash in Philadelphian — the day after he turned 100. Asbury Park Press reports the centenarian competed against octogenarians, finished in 26 seconds and was not last.

For the past 20 years, Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program has transformed 2,500 city walls into art. The latest project gives voice to the victims and perpetrators of crime in north Philly's Badlands community. Marion Winik reports.