Ed Gordon: Mother's Day is this weekend and for those of you who take mom's hard work for granted, listen to this---a new report from website Salary.com crunched the numbers and came up with a fair wage for the average stay-at-home mother, raising o...
Madeleine Brand: Back now with Day To Day. There will be no formal red light district on the Internet. The group that oversees how Internet addresses are assigned has rejected giving porn websites a .xxx suffix. An unlikely coalition of some adult w...
Renee Montagne: This is Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. John Ydstie: And I'm John Ydstie. In Your Health this morning, two stories on medical report cards and how people are using them. We look first at efforts to rank hospitals a...
Renee Montagne: This is Morning Edition from NPR News, I'm Renee Montagne. John Ydstie: And I'm John Ydstie. A new study in the Journal of the America Medical Association comes to a conclusion that has surprised even the researchers who conducted it...
Don Gonyea: John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, diplomat, prolific author, Harvard professor, and iconoclast , died yesterday in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was 97 years old, born in Canada to a farming family, Galbraith became the country's leading...
Alex Chadwick: From NPR News, it is Day to Day. The wonders of modern medicine often do cost us a little something in personal dignity. Think of this word, colonoscopy , if you haven't had the occasion to sample the procedure yet, you will know what...
Michele Norris: With Passover and Easter upon us, it's that time of year when you think of matzos and chocolate bunnies. But in Central America, they are thinking about bananas. At banana plantations, it's a tough time of the year. It's Semana Santa...
Rene Montagne: And here on the West Coast, the sea lion population has quadrupled since hunting stopped some 30 years ago. But fishermen are lobbying for a return of those days. Tom Banse explains. Tom Banse: A clump of California sea lions is soaki...
Madeleine Brand: Back now with Day to Day, I'm Madeleine Brand. At the cable television industry's annual trade show this week, a lot of anxiety. Viewers now have other ways to watch TV shows, and they can control what and how they watch them. Cable...
Renee Montagne: This is Morning Edition from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne. Steve Inskeep: And I'm Steve Inskeep. Federal environmental officials are starting to monitor the source of air-pollution that they largely ignored in the past--farms. As par...