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My 6-year-old has been exposed to SARS-CoV-2 at least four times and never tested positive. Many people fall into that category. Researchers have theories about why they've been able to ward it off.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with infectious disease specialist Dr. Celine Gounder about the evolving guidance around COVID and the tools we have to fight it.

Radio Diaries and All Things Considered continue their multi-part radio tribute to jobs that are slowly disappearing, celebrating people who keep alive an older way of life. This week, a profile of Selma Koch, one of the last old-style bra fitters. Her shop's motto? "We know your size."

A six-part NPR News series on changing attitudes toward immigration in the wake of Sept. 11 continues. On Morning Edition, Eric Westervelt reports on the relationship between the INS and local police.

David Person reports on the origins of the song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing". Written in 1900, the song is now called the Black National Anthem. This story is part of the ongoing series, Present at the Creation.

Writer Steve Erickson assembled a list of the top 100 songs recorded in Los Angeles. He chats with Scott Simon on Weekend Edition Saturday.

In theory, a beer poured at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level would have quite a head on it -- far more foam than at sea level. Intrepid NPR science reporter Joe Palca offers a Morning Edition report on the results of an experiment that began in the Andes Mountains and concluded in Washington, D.C.

Biographer Edmund Morris finds parallels between the events of 1901, when an anarchist's bullet thrust Theodore Roosevelt into the presidency, and today, when terrorists want to bring the country down. Hear Morris discuss his latest book, Theodore Rex. (8:45) (Theodore Rex is published by Random House. ISBN: 03945

Today marks the last installment -- for now, anyway -- of the National Story Project with writer Paul Auster and NPR's Jacki Lyden. But eventhough the National Story Project is on hiatus from broadcast we welcome your story submissions on-line. You can email those to nationalstoryproject@npr.org.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with photographer and explorer David Coulson about his adventures in the Sahara, discovering and preserving rock art, an ancient form of painting and engraving on stone. (6:09