NPR Topics: People & Places

Top Women Tennis Player Retires
Justine Henin, 25, is the world's top-ranked women's tennis player. But she's ready to move on. Madeleine Brand talks with Tennis Magazine senior editor Peter Bodo about Henin's decision.


Alex Chadwick Takes a Sweaty Ride
'Day to Day' host Alex Chadwick has been beating gas prices, even before they were this high; he pedals to work. He takes us along his 5-mile journey from his home to NPR West and shares his thoughts on why it's the ideal way to start a day.


Suze Rotolo: Of Dylan, New York and Art
Artist Suze Rotolo — the woman walking beside Bob Dylan on the album cover for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan — was Dylan's girlfriend in the '60s. She's written about the relationship, and about that era's New York, in a new memoir.


In 'Spies for Hire,' U.S. Security Gets Outsourced
It's become a $50 billion a year industry: Corporations like Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, and IBM are being paid to do things the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon usually do, including analysis, covert operations, electronic surveillance and reconnaissance.


Interpreter Prepares for Return to Iraq
Almost 500 men and women who worked as interpreters for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have been moved to the U.S. in the past year. But one woman is returning to Iraq after having trouble adjusting to life in America.


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