All Things Considered
Despite public health messages about exercise and eating healthfully, many children are acquiring what used to be considered "adult diseases," like diabetes and high blood pressure. M. Spencer Green/AP hide caption
Author Elmore Leonard at his home in Bloomfield Village, Mich. Noah Adams/NPR hide caption
Alan Gross and his wife, Judy. Alan Gross, a 60-year-old U.S. government contractor from Maryland, was arrested in Cuba in December for allegedly supplying communication equipment to members of Cuba's tiny Jewish community. Courtesy of the Gross family/AP hide caption
James Mercer (left) and Danger Mouse are Broken Bells. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is sprawled across a police desk as his wife looks on. He was arrested while trying to attend a hearing for civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy and was released when his identity became known to the police. Montgomery, Ala., 1958 Charles Moore/Black Star hide caption
Soprano Marlis Petersen, playing the part of Ophelia in Ambroise Thomas' opera Hamlet, stabs herself after being driven to madness by Hamlet's rejection. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera hide caption