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Commentator Dick Stein, a jazz host at member station KPLU in Seattle, learned all about those little bits of punched-out paper known as chad during his stint in the Air Force. He says back in 1966, he got a glimmer of just how pesky chad could become.

The sounds of plows and shovels filled the air in Buffalo today, as residents coped with an intense early season snowstorm that dropped two feet on snow on the city. School children spent the night in school, and businesses remained closed today as emergency officials worked to get the city back on its feet. Jim Ranney reports.

Jason DeRose of Chicago Public Radio reports on the outlook for airline travel during the holiday season. Bargain tickets are expected to be scarce and flights full. Labor problems loom at several major airlines: pilots are dissatisfied at Delta, US Air, and Continental; mechanics are unhappy at Northwest and United; and flight attendants are grumbling at American and United.

NPR's Elaine Korry tours a California house that on a sunny day produces more electricity than it uses. This so-called 'green home,' with air-cooling sculptures and sequestered solar panels, may be a small answer to California's energy crisis.

Chemists discover that tiny air bubbles in a flask of strong acid can get hotter than the surface of the sun. This finding is the latest development in a controversial pursuit to generate nuclear energy in a tabletop device.

When Commentator Ted Rose moved from New York City to the Shambhala Mountain Center, a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado Rockies, people talked about the meditation schedules and the communal eating. No one mentioned the center's open-air crematorium.

News analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says the flap over the falsified documents from George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, covered on CBS News, will occupy a place in the annals of political hoaxes.

Evolutionary biologist and Oxford professor Richard Dawkins sets out an argument for atheism in his book, The God Delusion.

A recent study of one recycling plant found that the plastic recycling process creates microplastics that contaminate the air and water.

Palestinians fleeing from Israel's air strikes are running out of food, water and fuel.