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A Miami couple has been charged with spying for Fidel Castro. Federal prosecutors allege Carlos Alvarez, 61, and his 55-year-old wife, Elsa Alvarez, led a double life as undercover agents for Cuba while working as professors at Florida International University.

A piece of Detroit music history is torn down to make way for Super Bowl parking. The Motown Center, which once housed the famous record label, had been abandoned for more than 30 years.

Scott Peterson, Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, describes what it's like to be on patrol with U.S. Marines in the Fallujah area. Last month, he was embedded with the Marine company that controls most of northeast Fallujah.

Listener Daniel Ferri's newborn son suffered a stroke as Hurricane Katrina neared the Gulf Coast. Ferri says the two disasters, one personal, one natural, shaped his belief in the kindness of strangers.

Doctors who performed the world's first partial face transplant provide an update on the procedure and the patient's condition. The recipient was a 38-year-old French woman who had been mauled by a dog.

Six men forced from their homes by violence in Sierra Leone have transformed their experience into a musical calling. The Refugee All Stars are now the subject of a feature-length documentary that follows their performances.

On the CD Goulash!, Matt Haimovitz and his stringed instrument explore the music of Hungary, Romania and Transylvania. And he throws in a version of the rock band's "Kashmir" for good measure.

Actor, producer, writer, director George Clooney directed and co-wrote the new film Good Night, and Good Luck, about the showdown between legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow and Sen. Joseph McCarthy that took place in 1954.

Robert Siegel continues his conversations with residents of one small street in New Orleans East. He chats with Keia Wyre, who lives at 37 Honeysuckle Lane. She's staying with her mother in Hampton, Va., while she tries to find out what insurance and FEMA will pay her for her water-damaged home.

The Patagonia company is a pioneer in outdoor clothing design and "alternative" corporate culture — the legacy of founder Yvon Chouinard. In the first of a two-part profile of the pioneering businessman, Chouinard discusses his offbeat business philosophy. It's all detailed in Chouinard's new book, Let My People Go Surfing.