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For our 50 Great Teachers series, a panel of experts shares thoughts on great teaching: past, present and future.

Our panelists predict what will be the first thing President Obama and the new Republican-led Congress agree on.

Bill reads three news-related limericks: Touchy Feely Taxi; Oenophile of One; The Colonel Sanders Retirement Home.

Our panelists tell three stories about sports fans taking their love of the game too far, only one of which is true.

Bill Kurtis reads three quotes from the week's news: Red Dawn, Commander In Distress, and Tappet Brotherly Love.

The killing of two Sacramento area sheriff's deputies by a Mexican national has prompted calls for stricter border security. The man accused of the killings had a long arrest and deportation record.

The emperor penguins of Antarctica are adorable. They're also pretty skittish when humans come around to collect data. Researchers at the University of Strasbourg have a solution: a penguin rover.

Major League Baseball is reviewing its controversial Rule 7.13, which bans most home plate collisions. Catchers actually face a bigger head-injury risk that the rule can't prevent.

Hasso Herschel fled East Germany in 1961 on a false passport. Over the next decade, he helped more than 1,000 East Germans flee by smuggling them through tunnels or by hiding them inside cars.

Archaeologist Mike Pitts' new book, Digging for Richard III, recounts the search for the king's skeleton — and sheds new light on a ruler who's often seen as one of history's great villains.