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Corporate America is jumping on the opportunities to make people healthier, while keep their bottoms line strong. Leaders of supermarkets, hotel chains and restaurant groups gathered in Washington this week for a summit aimed at shaping private sector solutions to the obesity epidemic.

The hotel giant said information on up to 500 million customers worldwide was exposed in a breach of its Starwood reservation database. The data includes dates of birth and passport numbers.

The physicist had just won the 1921 Nobel Prize when he scribbled his theory of happy living on a piece of hotel stationery and handed it to the courier at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo.

Helping their communities is one way for colleges and universities to counteract crashing public confidence in higher education, advocates say — a problem that has been worsened by political attacks and self-destructive missteps by even the most elite universities.

The stark beauty of New Hampshire's NovemberRobert Frost's poem My November Guest begins:My Sorrow, when she's here with me, Thinks these dark days of…

NPR's Michael Skoler visits Kikwit, Zaire almost a year after the ebola (ee-BOH-lah) epidemic broke out there. The virus appeared in May last year and is usually fatal. The epidemic was stopped but left 244 people dead. Scientists from the U-S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are testing samples of tens of thousands of insects and animals taken from the forest where the virus originated but still have not found the source. Hospital workers in Kikwit are still reluctant to treat patients, and while many people have overcome their fear of the disease, there remain superstitions and misinformation among the population.

New Orleans' broad, shady live oak trees lend the city much charm. Many urban foresters had feared the flooded trees might die after spending weeks with roots submerged in a salty, polluted brew. Now the city has dried out and tree experts are going in to assess the damage.

Viking Lumber buys most of its trees from the federal government's timber sales in the Tongass National Forest. But those sales could become a thing of the past.

Despite the forest fire in North Woodstock, tourism officials are urging visitors that the White Mountains are open for business.The Lost River Gorge is…