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2: DR. KEVIN CAHILL. He specializes in tropical medicine, and he looks at the role of health in promoting world peace. He is President and Director of the Center for International Health and Cooperation in New york. His work looking at health amid natural disasters and wars has taken him all over the world, from Nicaragua in the 70s to Somalia today. He is the author or editor of 22 books. He edited the new book "A Framework for Survival: Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters." It's a collection 20 essays by international experts looking for a new approach to foreign policy that takes health and human rights into account.

Educator DEBBIE MEIER. She's a nationally known authority on education, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award. She developed and directed three alternative elementary schools in East Harlem and later a Seondary School. The schools accept students on a first-come, first-serve basis. Classes are small and personalized, and the emphasis is on academic learning and inquiry. MEIER wanted to create an atmosphere where students learn democratic values, where teachers can hold kids accountable, and parents can become involved. A new book about what happened in East Harlem, thanks to MEIER and others is, "Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education," by Seymour Fliegel with James MacGuire (Times

A new exhibition in London features T.E. Lawrence's long-lost map of the Middle East. Lawrence of Arabia's map, presented to the British cabinet in 1918, provides an alternative to present-day borders in the region.

U.S. prosecutors this week are expected to ask a federal grand jury to indict former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay on fraud charges. Many of his legal troubles began when Sherron Watkins started to tell prosecutors about Enron's accounting practices. For this week's installment of our summer reading series, we spoke with the Enron whistleblower and co-author of Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron.

Three of the nation's most prestigious universities face class-action lawsuits alleging the schools allowed financial firms to prey on employees by charging high fees in retirement accounts.

The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to hire prosecutors "to hold accountable the people who are facilitating addiction." Advocacy groups worry the move would exceed the DEA's legal authority.

Target is trying to get back in good graces with its customers after a massive data breach affecting some 40 million credit and debit account holders. The giant retail chain offered its customers a 10 percent discount over the weekend as an act of atonement, but business was said to be down anyway.

The online government database was supposed to bring some transparency to the multimillion-dollar market in political TV ads, letting the public more easily see how much politicians and advocacy groups spend in major markets. But it also has inadvertently opened up some of those involved to fraud.

Bergdahl, who was held by the Taliban for five years after he left his base in Afghanistan in 2009, could be sentenced to life in prison.

For the first time, government statistics show America's pigs, cattle, and poultry are getting fewer antibiotic drugs. Public health advocates call the new figures encouraging.