There’s an emerging option for people with severe facial disfigurements. The first facial transplant happened in France in 2006. Since then about 30 people have undergone the grueling surgery. In 2012, Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez led a team at the University of Maryland Medical Center that attempted the most extensive face transplant yet.
You can also listen to the extended interview with Dr. Rodriguez.
Janet Guthrie was the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500. Her autobiography is called “A Life at Full Throttle.”
Producer Charles Monroe-Kane lives a few blocks from the house where an Afrian-American teenager was recently killed by a white police officer. The impacts of the shooting have been rippling through the mixed-race neighborhood. Charles and his family are whiet. Here's how they are responding.
When independent radio producer Karen Michel moved from her apartment in Brooklyn out to the country – near the Hudson River - she wanted to know what her new neighbors really cared about. What, for them, it truly meant to live in a democracy where freedom is taken for granted.
Before she was became "The French Chef," Julia Child worked in espionage for the O.S.S. during World War II. That's where she met her husband Paul. Biographer Jennet Conant tells the story of Julia's career in espionage, and of how the couple navigated the McCarthy investigations.
Paul Collins researched forgotten stars for his book “Banvard’s Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck.”
Chicago May was a 19th century Irish immigrant who became a con-woman and crook instead of a maid or factory worker.
Some people went to war, some went to Canada, and others did alternative service. Coleman went to prison for refusing to fight. His memoir, “Spoke” tells the story of how he decided.
