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The best rivers don't offer just one great swimming hole. They boast a whole chain of deep pools, high jumping rocks and great perches for lying in the sun with a book. North Country Public Radio sends a postcard from the Boquet River in New York's Adirondack Mountains.

For years visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line. Scientists say that marking was in the wrong place because distortions caused by gravity weren't taken into account.

NPR's Scott Simon talks baseball with Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine. This season's hot baseball teams are usually underdogs — the Cubs, Blue Jays and Mets.

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, much progress has been made to rebuild the city, but black and white residents assess the recovery quite differently.

Our panelists predict what will be found in Hillary's email server.

Bill reads three news-related limericks: Astromaine, Headache Chic, Sparkercise.

In Susan Barker's novel, a few strange letters bloom into a saga of two souls' reincarnations. Barker says her characters' many lives gave her an instrument to explore China — both past and present.

Advocates for survivors of violent crime say there are too few credible programs to help black men — and they're trying to change that.

The spill of heavy metals into the Animas River has contaminated water for hundreds of farmers in the Navajo Nation downstream, bringing up memories of past environmental disasters.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Melody Gutierrez about the shortage of special security paper used for birth and death certificates in California.