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Indie rock band Ghosty hails from Lawrence, Ks. The band writes folk-tinged, artful and introspective songs inspired by artists like Wilco, The Flaming Lips and Bob Dylan. Hear "Big Surrender" from their new CD Grow Up or Sleep In.

Awaz Dehkani, a high school teacher in Trappes, France, says her mostly immigrant students have mixed feelings about the violence that has spread to their community. They understand the anger that arises from lack of opportunity but also worry the unrest will hurt the image of immigrants in France.

Camps in Kenya house 140,000 refugees from civil war and deprivation in Somalia. There is fear that extremist Islamist groups will find recruits amid the stagnant life in the camps.

The alternative rock trio Nada Surf has just released their fourth album to great critical acclaim. The Weight is a Gift was produced by Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla.

The National Academies releases its report on whether the Environmental Protection Agency is allowing unsafe levels of fluoride in America's drinking water.

In Spanish, lucha libre is translated literally to mean "free fighting" -- and to many Latinos, it's professional wrestling, vaudeville, a venerable cinema genre and the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai all wrapped up in one campy and crowd-pleasing spectacle.

The Starbucks coffee company views China as the fastest growing market for its products outside of the United States. The company already has more than 140 stores in China. As part of this week's series on U.S. relations with China, Steve Inskeep speaks with Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz.

The file-sharing software firm Grokster has agreed to close its service and pay a $50-million penalty to settle a lawsuit with entertainment companies. The move comes five months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Grokster in an intellectual property dispute. Day to Day tech contributor Xeni Jardin reports on what the move means for the future of file sharing on the Internet.

Two new documentaries probe the effects of outside influences on third-world countries. In Our Brand is Crisis, the arrival of U.S. campaign consultants threatens the outcome of a Bolivian presidential election. And Darwin's Nightmare is about the devastation of Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

The Indo-European root of the words peculiar and pecuniary lead, surprisingly, back to herds of cattle and the earliest references to money. The word stem has always been used in reference to wealth. Before money, this was expressed in heads of cattle. The stem adapted to new circumstances as wealth began to be expressed in terms of gold and money.