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Agreeing to an out-of-network doctor's financial policy, which protects their ability to get paid and may be littered with confusing jargon, can create a binding contract that leaves a patient owing.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with political scientist Gayil Talshir of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about the protests in Israel after the recovery of the bodies of six hostages.

A Columbus, Ohio band called Evolution Control Committee is in a legal battle with CBS, Inc. because of the group's single now on the web called Rocked By Rape which slices and splices Dan Rather's words to heavy metal music.

Host Lisa Simeone visits the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., to learn about its breeding program and meet its newest arrivals. See the zoo babies at play in our web extra coverage.

The latest installment in NPR's War Diaries series has the story of Ziad Ezzat, a young Iraqi American who expresses himself through a satirical Web site called wackyiraqi.com.

NPR's Matt Hackworth reports on an archaeologist in Chicago using volunteers and a Web site to help recover artifacts missing from Iraq's National Museum.

The Web site uglydress.com maintains a visual record of ugly bridesmaids' gowns. NPR's Renee Montagne reports.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to Ruth Albrecht of Eugene, Oregon. Her short poem won the NPR Online Presidential Acceptance Speech Haiku contest. Her poem and those of our finalists are on our web site at www.npr.org

The Department of Agriculture introduces a new food pyramid that incorporates a symbol for physical activity. The nutritional guidelines, accompanied by a Web site offering tailored recommendations, are aimed at changing American lifestyles.

The World Resources Institute says you don't have to bid burgers bye-bye in order to reduce the environmental footprint of what you eat. Americans cutting back on beef could go a long way, it says.