Aug 7th, 2008 · As medal-winners step up to the podium in this year's Summer Olympics, commentator Miles Hoffman says, we're bound to hear quite a few national anthems, some of which come equipped with bad poetry and stilted music.
Mar 28th, 2008 · She may have lost control of the car, but a woman kept control of what was really important. Authorities say the driver was reaching for her cell phone when she crashed. She left not only the road, but also the land. The car splashed into the waters off Oakland, Calif., and came to rest between the stilts of a home. But witnesses say the 22-year-old woman made it out. And she waded ashore still holding her morning coffee.
Mar 1st, 2008 · Scott Simon talks with Chris O'Brien, a UK native, who just finished two years in Beijing massaging the English press releases from Xinhua, the official Chinese press agency. O' Brien has been a self-described propagandist for the Chinese government, making stilted official old line Marxist newspeak sound like familiar English in the West.
Jul 3rd, 2006 · Desert ants are very good at finding their way home. How they do that has been a mystery, until now. A clever experiment in Germany finds that these ants get home by counting their steps. Ants with shortened legs stopped short of their nests, while ants outfitted with stilts walked too far.