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Twelve days ago citizens of Weyauwega, [wy-uh-WEE-guh] Wisconsin were evacuated from their homes following the derailment of railroad cars carrying fourteen propane tankers. Wisconsin Public Radio's Gil Halsted reports on life at a hotel where more than fifty evacuated families have been staying.

The Peabody Hotel in Memphis needs a new bird herder to give its famous mini-flock the red carpet treatment.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on the rediscovery of architect Mary Colter's work. She was the subject of two recent documentaries and subject of a forthcoming biography. Colter designed many of the structures in and around the Grand Canyon, and in 1910, she became the chief architect for Harvey Hotels.

Commentator Jan Ting, a Delaware delegate at the Republican convention, says he is deeply moved by the experience of staying at the newly opened Millennium Hilton Hotel overlooking the World Trade Center site.

The brutal rape left aid agencies wondering whether to pull out their foreign staff. Now the U.N. has issued a report — and taken action.

A hotel near the site of Dubai's planned New Year's Eve fireworks display broke out in flames Thursday. News reports said at least 20 stories were on fire. Dubai's media office reports 16 injuries.

Syrian rebels claim responsibility for a bomb that went off near the hotel used by the United Nations observer team. None of the UN staffers was hurt.

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed tells the story of a sacred tree, a logger-turned environmentalist and a shocking act of environmental protest in the woods of British Columbia. Michele Norris talks with author John Vaillant.

The death toll doubled when two additional bodies were found within the burn zone of the McKinney Fire, the state's largest blaze of the year.

What a hornet wasp might use to sting a human, these wasps use to lay their eggs inside their host: the emerald ash borer.