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Northern California's Whiskeytown National Recreation Area has a new attraction this summer: a 300-foot waterfall that until recently managed to remain a hidden liquid asset. Park Superintendent Jim Milestone talks about the find.

Our commentator explains how the rabbi's wife led him back to the African-American cuisine of his childhood.

A rare, hybrid eclipse occurs Friday. The best viewing is in parts of Panama and the South Pacific. A hybrid appears both as either a complete or obscured eclipse depending on one's vantage point. It occurs only six times every century.

NPR's Susan Stamberg talks with critic Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times about actor-comedian Will Ferrell, now starring in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.

NPR's Juan Williams watched the presidential debate with voters in the swing state of Minnesota. Williams reports on how the voters reacted to what the candidates said.

Commentator David Shenk is disappointed that Theresa Heinz Kerry decided to try and stop John Edwards' son Jack from sucking his thumb at the Democratic photo-op in Pittsburgh, Penn.

Ken Smith is the author of Junk English 2, a book about the often meaningless words and phrases Americans love to use. He sees the language "spiraling downward." Hear Smith and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

New cancer-fighting techniques, including drugs designed to target cancer cells, mean thousands of patients are surviving cancer. Researcher and author David G. Nathan explains The Cancer Treatment Revolution.

Al Gore emerges, Obama's aunt is reportedly living in the U.S. illegally — what more can we expect in the final days of the campaigns?

In The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, author Daniel Mendelsohn unearths and reconstructs the lives of six people in his family who died in the Holocaust. Maureen Corrigan has a book review.