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NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with David Carley, a developer who made, then lost, some $40 million. He says his downfall was over-ambition and under-attention to details. This is part two of Susan's series of discussions about money, airing Tuesdays in April.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the current problems facing the postal service. For the past two years, it has lost money and is expecting to lose money again this year. And that may mean closing post offices in smaller towns. Not to mention another increase in the cost of a first class stamp.

Host Jacki Lyden visits four families in Israel and the West Bank who have lost children in the bloody conflict in that region. Since the most recent violence began on September 28, almost two hundred children under eighteen have died, 164 Palestinians and thirty-seven Israelis.

Frank Conrad's garage near Pittsburgh is widely considered to be the birthplace of modern broadcasting. For 94-year-old Harry Mills, memories of Conrad's earliest broadcasts still ring with excitement. Hear the story of radio's early days on All Things Considered. It's part of NPR's continuing Lost and Found Sound series.

An estimated 3,500 voices were silenced on Sept. 11, victims of the worst-ever terrorist assault on U.S. soil. All Things Considered co-host Noah Adams sought out the stories of the people of Parkesburg, Penn. -- population about 3,500 -- to better understand what was lost.

Two widows who lost their husbands Sept. 11 talk about the war in Iraq. One feels her husband's death requires retribution; the other spends sleepless nights worrying about the death of innocent Iraqis.

California's employment picture has been soured by the housing meltdown. Jobs are being lost in construction and in financial services. Rachael Myrow reports for member station KQED in San Francisco.

Southern Oregon land managers lost momentum in the fight against invasive, fire-prone weeds during the pandemic. Now, the Bootleg Fire is at their doorstep.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that declining rates for violent crimes and other property crime, have police departments across the country now focusing on investigating burglaries. But fewer than 10 per cent of burglaries are ever solved, and police are now wondering whether it makes sense spend their resources on what is perceived as a "lost cause."

For more than thirty years, the drug Bendectin was used to treat pregnant women for nausea and vomiting. But the manufacturer stopped making Bendectin, because it had to defend so many lawsuits for children born with birth defects -- though it had never lost one of those suits. Now another drug may replace Bendectin. NPR's Joanne Silberner has the story.