Christian landlord Ayman Dimitry, shown with his 5-year-old daughter, Juliena, says his ear was cut off by men who accused him of renting an apartment to Muslim prostitutes. Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson/NPR hide caption

Elevation Burger, with 18 franchises from New York to Dallas, strictly uses free-range, grass-fed, organic beef. "We're doing it better," says founder Hans Hess. "We're raising the standard." Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption

In May 2010, then-BP CEO Tony Hayward gave a news conference at Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption

Millions of times a day, people turn to Google for information on how to do things. Until Google changed its formula recently, the top sites returned in searches were often dominated by so-called "content farms" geared mostly at serving up ads. Mito Habe-Evans/NPR hide caption

Noorain Khan committed to wearing the hijab when she was 8. She took it off when she was 20. John Poole/NPR hide caption