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Fiet's Vase, a new book by Alison Leslie Gold, documents harrowing and inspiring survival stories from the Holocaust. The book is a compilation of personal accounts from people who have struggled to understand why they survived, when so many others perished. NPR's Susan Stamberg talks to Gold.

The Internal Revenue Service says millions of Americans will have to wait until mid-February before filing their 2007 tax returns. The IRS needs the extra time to reprogram its computers to account for the recent fix to the alternative minimum tax, or AMT.

After the collapse of the I-35 West bridge Wednesday, authorities are now focused on accounting for missing people and recovering the bodies of victims. The destruction of this key highway left commuter traffic snarled Thursday morning in the Minneapolis area.

Two of the five major record labels say they will change the accounting methods they use to calculate artist royalty payments. Label executives hope the reforms will convince more artists to join the battle against free music on the Internet. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Ted Benna, who created the 401(K) savings plan 20 years ago. Benna says the Internet makes it much easier for people to track their retirement savings accounts. But he advises people to ignore investment fads and day-to-day ups and downs in the market and to concentrate instead on long-term growth.

Last week, a judge in Michigan ordered Yahoo to give a deceased Marine's family full access to his e-mail account. Liane Hansen speaks with Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center about what the Michigan case means for the privacy of personal communications.

Early in his first term, President Bush made a commitment to spend $5 billion a year in helping the poorest nations of the world out of poverty. His Millennium Challenge Account, though, has not spent a penny yet. And the president's latest budget proposal calls for $3 billion, not the $5 billion he promised.

According to the Pentagon, improvised explosive devices account for half of all combat deaths in Iraq. The Pentagon says by summer, all U.S. military vehicles in Iraq will have factory-produced armor. The military also is turning to high-tech solutions, including drones that can detect items buried in the ground.

The government releases its most recent account of Iraq's arms programs. The conclusion: Saddam Hussein posed a diminishing threat at the time the United States invaded. We get a reaction from a former U.S. chief arms inspector.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Judith Yaphe, senior research fellow at National Defense University about the demographic make-up of Iraq, and how that will affect Iraq's future. She says Sunni Arabs account for only about 17 percent of the population. Shia Arabs 60 percent; Kurds -- mostly Sunni -- about 20 percent; and Turkmen only about three percent, though they claim much higher numbers.