Dec 20th, 2008 · Do you know the way to San Jose's heart? Achieve the winningest record in hockey — at least that's what their Sharks have done. Though they've lost two in a row they could still pass Detroit's 1995-1996 record of 62 wins. Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about the week in sports from hockey to college football to the Atlanta Falcons.
Dec 18th, 2008 · A wealth of international contributions totaling at least $46 million has helped fund the William J. Clinton Foundation since its inception in 1996, a donor list released Thursday reveals. The figure represents about 10 percent of all giving to a nonprofit enterprise aimed primarily at reducing poverty and treating AIDS worldwide.
Dec 16th, 2008 · The more than two-decade-old investigation into who killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, in 1981 has come to a close. Police in Florida say Ottis Toole, a serial killer who died in prison in 1996, decapitated Adam Walsh.
Nov 17th, 2008 · In 1996, a mentally ill parishioner attacked a community of elderly nuns in Waterville, Maine, killing two. The incident forced the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to reconsider the meaning of forgiveness and trust.
Nov 11th, 2008 · A quartet originally formed in Madison, Wis. in 1996, The Great Depression is now based in Denmark. The moniker is an especially fitting one, as the ten songs on the Great Depression's third and latest full-length album, Forever Altered, all drift through gray and somber landscapes. But its melancholia is sophisticated rather than melodramatic.
Nov 3rd, 2008 · Currently based in Barcelona, Cineplexx is the work of Argentinean-born musician and graphic artist Sebastian Litmanovich. Though his name may be unfamiliar to many, Litmanovich is no newcomer. Inspired during a study abroad stint in New York City in 1996, he's been creating music under the Cineplexx name for the past decade. He's also collaborated with numerous artists, including fellow Argentine Federico Aubele who plays bass on two of the tracks on Cineplexx's latest album, Picnic.
Sep 14th, 2008 · The author of the critically acclaimed 1996 novel Infinite Jest was found dead in his Claremont, Calif., home on Friday.
May 12th, 2008 · Mountaineer and filmmaker David Breashears talks about his new IMAX documentary Storm Over Everest, which chronicles an unexpected and violent storm that hit Everest in May 1996 — now remembered as one of the mountain's worst tragedies.