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The former rebels in southern Sudan are making money. Literally. The Southern People's Liberation Movement is working to introduce a new currency to replace dilapidated and filthy Sudanese Pound notes.

Food guru Mark Bittman and chef Chris Schlesinger have been at odds for years over just the right way to cook. They debate simple vs. fancy techniques for summer grilling.

Authorities in Utah and Arizona are taking new steps to try to control a polygamist group dominating twin towns on the Utah-Arizona border. The group is known as the FLDS Church and it controls the schools, police and local government. Last week, the state of Arizona raided the school administrative offices and a Utah judge froze the assets of the group.

Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the second U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, where the justices ruled U.S. public schools must desegregate "with all deliberate speed." Much progress has been made, but 50 years later, many educators and activists point to growing "re-segregation" in school systems. It's a problem nationwide, but especially in southern states. From Birmingham, Ala., Tanya Ott reports.

Deep Throat is possibly the most influential anonymous source of all time. News of his identity comes at a time when the use of anonymous sources is being debated.

Critics question California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's praise of the Arizona Minutemen, the volunteer-based group that drew attention earlier this month for patrols on the Mexican border. The Austrian-born governor responds by declaring himself a champion of immigrants.

Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Emily Bazelon about U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist's looming retirement, and if he'll stay on the court until after the summer recess.

A jury may soon decide the fate of Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who's on trial for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Jackson, Miss. Commentator Deborah Mathis hopes the trial may bring peace to the rural Mississippi town. Mathis is a syndicated columnist and a professor at the Medill School of Journalism.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two new novels set in Cuba: Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban, the debut novel by Lisa Wixon, and Adios Hemingway by Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes. Translated by John King, Adios Hemingway is the latest in Fuentes' award-winning Inspector Mario Conde mysteries.

The eight-time All-Star, who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA's top players of the 1970s, died Tuesday. Lanier had worked for the league as a global ambassador.