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Vice President Dick Cheney has been under scrutiny for his ties to Halliburton, where he was once CEO. Halliburton won $7 billion in no-bid contracts in Iraq. Cheney has said he has not influenced those deals. In this week's The New Yorker magazine, writer Jane Mayer examines the confluence of Cheney's corporate and public careers. Hear Mayer and NPR's Bob Edwards.

Jane Poynter spent more than two years living in "Biosphere II" in the early 1990s. Her book about the experience is The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes inside Biosphere Two.

Linda talks with Jane Tollini, a tour guide and the penguin keeper at the San Francisco Zoo. Ms. Tollini invented the San Francisco Zoo Valentine's Day Sex Tour seven years ago...and the tour has become extremely popular. They discuss just what the components of the tour are and how many people have shown up for this year's program.

Burundi's Tutsi-dominated army seized power today, and installed a former military ruler as the new leader. The leader of the coalition government overthrown by the coup, has not resigned and remains in the US ambassador's residence, where he fled to last night. Robert Siegel speaks with BBC reporter Jane Standley in Bujumbura about the situation. Standley says the streets of Burundi remain relatively peaceful so far, but tensions are high, and the minority Tutsi party is bitterly divided.

The New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer discusses The Dark Side, her nonfiction account of the Bush administration's anti-terror policies. Mayer has been nominated for a 2008 National Book Award for the work.

"Shoot Me While I'm Happy" is an account of falling in love with tap dancing written by Jane Goldberg, who studied and performed alongside some of the greatest tap dancers of the past 50 years.

Investigative journalist Jane Mayer discusses a secret CIA counterterrorism program that was reportedly concealed from Congress under direct orders from then Vice President Dick Cheney.

The new Stephen Hawking biographical film The Theory Of Everythingtakes such a starry-eyed view of love and life that it seems to be from another era.

Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish region of Iraq, is stepping down after 12 years in power. Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with NPR's Jane Arraf from the regional capital Erbil.

Monday's referendum for voters in Iraq's Kurdish region asks whether the Kurds should break away to form their own country. Iran and Turkey are watching the vote closely.