This Week’s Picks

The Insights of Angels

Skin color is a non-issue for Abby Reinhardt, a little girl in Kentucky with an adopted sister and brother from Liberia.

Target Cancer

Was PLX4032 a miracle cure for terminally ill melanoma patients? A 3-part series on the hopes and frustrations of clinical drug trials. (NYT)

From Iraq to the Campaign Trail

From Iraq to the Campaign Trail

Iraq War veterans are turning to politics with the same sense of duty that pushed them to enlist. Meet two on the trail.

Rising From the Wreckage

Rising From the Wreckage

Pulled back from disaster, the determined U.S. auto industry enters a new age. Multimedia series looks in the rear-view mirror ... and at the rough road ahead. (Detroit Free Press)

Featured Channels

Los Angeles Times

Worth its Weight in Dimes

A vintage scale that has stood in front of a Los Angeles store for 30 years has a personality of its own. (LAT)

Worth its Weight in Dimes

Project 50: Four Walls and a Bed

Los Angeles County gave 50 hardcore homeless on skid row a place to live with no strings attached. This four-part multimedia series tracks participants over two years. (LAT)

Project 50: Four Walls and a Bed

Pullman Porter and Family Patriarch

Working for Union Pacific Railroad for 38 years enabled Lee Wesley Gibson, now 100, to create his most cherished legacy -- his progeny. (LAT)

Pullman Porter and Family Patriarch

National Geographic

National Geographic

Extreme martial artist Mindy Kelly pits her contortionist dexterity against one of modern technology's best laser-beam security systems. (National Geographic)

Enduring Voices Expedition

Two scientists travel the globe on a mission to preserve endangered languages and cultures before they are lost forever. (National Geographic)

Enduring Voices Expedition

In Taiwan, a famous chef prepares an exotic and taboo dinner treat. Is it really an aphrodisiac? (National Geographic)

The World's Murder Capital

The streets are safer in Baghdad than in Caracas, Venezuela, where the soaring homicide toll is a blemish on the revolutionary government that promised reform. (NYT)

The World's Murder Capital

Pathology of Errors

Early diagnosis with microscopic techniques may be saving more lives of women with breast cancer, but the potential for horrible mistakes has also grown. (NYT)

Pathology of Errors

In Johannesburg, being a member of an openly lesbian soccer team can mean risking your life. (NYT)

The Pity of War

A 14-year-old Afghan girl is inadvertently killed by shrapnel from a U.S. mortar strike (Time)

The Pity of War

Extreme Couponers Get Groceries for (Almost) Free

Her framing business subsided, so Treasure Philips devotes most of her efforts to strategizing how to get big supermarket discounts. (Time)

Extreme Couponers Get Groceries for (Almost) Free

Holy Cow Jumping!

The sport of Course Landaise, France's answer to bullfighting, combines leaping, spinning and smarter bovines. (Time)

Holy Cow Jumping!

Washington Post

Top Secret America

A two-year investigative project uncovers huge, covert national security buildups in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks, hidden from public scrutiny. (WP)

Top Secret America

Teenage Opera Sensation

Recent Maryland high school grad Joey Baker has one of the most promising baritone singing voices in the country. (WP)

Teenage Opera Sensation

Weed Warriors Turn Vines into Art

A Maryland couple turns pesky, non-native plants into whimsical sculptures. (WP)

Weed Warriors Turn Vines into Art