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For decades we've been told to "reduce, recycle and reuse" to help the environment. But some experts say when it comes to plastic, we might want to hold off reusing plastic food packaging.

Returns of toys and gadgets add up to more than $260 billion every year. Optoro, a startup in Maryland, tries to reduce the cost to retailers, and the cost to the environment.

Linda talks to S.L. Price, senior writer at Sports Illustrated, about Cuban baseball player Andy Morales, who has repeatedly tried to defect from Cuba to the United States. Morales is currently being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, after successfully crossing the Florida Strait to an island off Key West.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that Exxon Mobil Corporation has been ordered to pay the state of Alabama nearly 3-and-a-half billion dollars in punitive damages. An Alabama circuit court jury found the company had deliberately underpaid on its natural gas leases off the Alabama coast.

Fats Domino, a founding father of rock-and-roll, has died at age 89. His daughter said that he died Tuesday of natural causes.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including natural sound of the bomb explosion at Centennial Olympic ark in Atlanta; FBI Special Agent Woody Johnson; Jason Sanders, an eyewitness o the explosion; Jake Sanders, another eyewitnes; Andrew Young, Co-Chairman of tlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and President Bill Clinton.

NPR's Pam Fessler looks at the debate surrounding President Bush's plan to allocate federal funds to community service organizations. Because of the religious nature of many of these organizations, some people are concerned that President Bush's proposal might violate constitutional provisions for the separation between church and state.

For a single day at the end of March, wind was the second-largest source of electricity generation, the Energy Information Administration says. Natural gas is still the nation's largest power source.

The documentary Gasland inspired legions of "fracktivists" to oppose natural gas drilling booms across the country. Now the film has a sequel. Gasland Part II by director Josh Fox begins airing on HBO Monday night.

The surf is always up in Waco, Texas, thanks to an artificial wave so good it's attracting top professionals and casual riders. It's a sign of just how far the technology of wave making has come.