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Hurricane Wilma, churning through the northwest Caribbean, turns into a Category 5 storm. The National Hurricane Center says the factors in making Wilma so powerful include warm water and low upper level wind sheer.

The Pentagon is exploring proposals to give the military a prominent role during disasters within the United States. That might require changing the posse comitatus law, which generally makes it illegal for the military to perform law enforcement duties within the United States. In the second of two commentaries on the law, commentator Austin Bay, a colonel in the Army Reserve, says we should leave posse comitatus alone.

Robert Siegel talks with Purdue University Professor Edward Delp, one of a team who devised a way to watermark pages from copiers and printers. This technology allows for the tracing of documents to specific printers or to a certain model of printer.

The shopping district of Atlanta's newest redevelopment project opens Thursday: Atlantic Station is built on the site of an old steel mill near downtown. The idea behind the design is New Urbanism, environments where people can live, work and shop in one space. Time will determine whether Atlantic Station fulfills that vision.

Mao: The Unknown Story was written by Jung Chang, who described the suffering of her family during the cultural revolution in the bestseller Wild Swans and her husband, the historian Jon Halliday.

Patagonia remains a pioneer in outdoor clothing design and alternative corporate culture after decades in business. Company founder Yvon Chouinard discusses his business philosophy in his new book, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman. In the second part of our profile, Alex Chadwick further explores Chouinard's eccentric approach to running a company.

Hurricane Wilma has been downgraded in intensity, but continues to pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with high winds and plenty of rain. It's also crawling slowly toward the northeast, and could hit Southwest Florida by Monday.

As a former counterterrorism official in the Clinton and Bush administrations, Richard A. Clarke often had to imagine worst-case scenarios. His first novel — a thriller — does just that: set five years in the future, it envisions the United States on the verge of another war in the Middle East.

The alt-country band the Knitters is led by John Doe and Exene Cervenka — who also front X, the legendary punk band. Their first album release in 20 years includes country-fried versions of X songs along with classics popularized by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

Hurricane Wilma hit southwest Florida at dawn as a Category 3 storm, packing winds of 125 mph that damaged homes, downed power lines and brought flooding as far south as Key West. The storm has since moved over the Atlantic Ocean.