Search results for

NPR's Larry Abramson reports that a recent FBI bust of a bookie has focused attention on another weapon in law enforcement's high-tech arsenal. Agents put a keystroke monitor on a suspect's computer and were able to recreate every letter typed into it for months. The idea was to get a password he used to encrypt data.

Eighty-percent of the world's poinsettias are grown at one ranch in Encinitas, California. Noah talks with Paul Ecke III -- CEO of Paul Ecke Ranch -- about the history and breeding of the popular holiday flower. The Ecke family has grown the tropical American shrub for ninety years.

Josh Rogers of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on the financial hardship faced by many lower and fixed income people in the northeast due to high heating oil prices this winter. There's a limited amount of available fuel assistance, and many politicians are asking for additional federal funding to help out.

Julia Barton reports on how Yalta a tiny piece of land between a mountain chain and the Black sea is dealing with the lack of tourists during this winter.

From Peach State Public Radio Maura Farrelly reports on how Atlanta residents are coping with the three inches of snow that hit the city yesterday. Many of the city's snow-deprived are enjoying the chance to frolic the white stuff.

Former Democratic Representative Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois is one of 59 people President Clinton has decided to pardon. The former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee pleaded guilty to mail fraud. David Schaper of WBEZ in Chicago reports.

Robert talks with reporter Eric Pilgrim of the European Stars and Stripes about the trial of 2 American teenage boys. The boys will serve 7 to 8 years for the deaths of two German drivers. The drivers were killed after the boys dropped rocks from a pedestrian onto the windshields of the passing cars.

Manufacturers are feeling the sting of the slowing economy. As NPR's Jack Speer reports, factory layoffs have been recently announced at General Motors, Whirlpool, Gillette and other major industrial companies. Soaring energy prices, tighter credit and consumers who are suddenly balking at big ticket items have all contributed to the slowdown.

He was the founder of The Temptations, whose smooth five-part harmonies and synchronized dance steps made them one of the hottest of Motown's super groups. Their hits included My Girl, Just My Imagination and Papa Was a Rolling Stone. He is the only surviving member of the original group. The Temptations have just released a new CD called Ear-Resistible. (9

The new film from British director Terrence Davies - his adaptation of Edith Wharton's satire of the rich - opens in theaters today. It stars Gillian "X-Files" Anderson as a beautiful young woman undone by high society in turn-of-the-last-century Manhattan. The film has been praised by critics and is already a hit in Britain. David D'Arcy reports.