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A few weeks ago, comedian John Early answered trivia questions about the Brady Bunch. So when cartoonist Keith Knight and his sister Tracy requested a Brady Bunch game, the research was already done.

We'll hear excerpts from last night's addresses by Vice-President Al Gore and Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd. From Gore's speech, we'll hear his emotional memories of his sister, who died of lung cancer...and from Senator Dodd, a call for civility in the political arena.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on a new study showing that some women who are already at risk of breast cancer may have inadvertently increased that risk if they took birth control pills before 1975. Those pills had a higher level of the hormone estrogen than pills made later. The study looked at women who have already had a sister or mother with breast cancer.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Kenneth Lonergan movie, You Can Count on Me. It's about the relationship between a brother and a sister who were orphaned at an early age. The two both support and exasperate each other through life.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with two Ursuline nuns who have been traveling down the Ohio River in a flatboat this week, re-enacting the trip taken by Ursuline sisters 130 years ago to establish a school.

Host Debbie Elliott talks with author Jeanne Birdsall, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature, about her book, The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy.

His father, Joseph, came to the U.S. as a child, smuggled out of Nazi Germany with one of his sisters.

With tensions easing between North and South Korea, the two sides are reviving cross-border reunions that began in 1985. On Monday, 93 South Koreans will board buses to visit relatives in the North.

Many people with intellectual disabilities can't talk or have difficulty speaking — and are unable to report when they've been raped or sexually assaulted.

Seattle-based researchers examined the disappearances and murders of Native American women in 71 U.S. cities. They found information on 506 documented cases — and huge, troubling gaps in the data.