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Refined Elizabethan music might not come to mind when you think of Sting. Think again. The rock star has released Songs of the Labyrinth, a new CD of songs for voice and lute by John Dowland, one of that era's most important composers.

Just as punk rockers broke the rules in the 1970s, so did a slew of equally rebellious singers and their groups a generation earlier. Rockin' Bones, a new CD collection, features the music of 1950s rockabilly artists who were the iconoclasts of their day.

The UPN TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer has its share of rabid fans. But it also enjoys a special following among academics, some of whom have staked a claim in what they call "Buffy Studies," analyzing the characters and underlying themes of teens battling supernatural monsters and their own human passions. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the future of "Buffy Studies" after Buffy's off the air.

More than 500,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code have been sold in China. In particular, the book has been a hot item in Beijing.

Amid ongoing clashes between the army and militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of people have taken refuge on two islands in a remote lake. Though life on the islands is difficult, the residents say they feel safer than in the villages where they were attacked.

In New York City, construction has begun on one of the most unusual and innovative parks in the nation. The High Line project will transform an abandoned railroad overpass that spans 22 blocks on Manhattan's West Side into an urban promenade of green parkland.

A new book skewers today's mindless corporate culture via the e-mails of Martin Lukes, a fictitious, ambitious, forty-something middle manager who works for a company that makes nothing in particular.

As the U.S. Forest Service celebrates its 100-year anniversary, its mission has become more complex. Scientists are studying a vast network of plumbing under the forest floor that in the dry West is more valuable than the trees above.

American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino is climbing up the R&B charts. One of her songs, "Baby Mama," is a tribute to young, single mothers. But as her popularity grows, critics worry the song is sending the wrong message.

Detroit-based musician Kem has hit the No. 1 spot on urban and R&B music sales charts with "I Can't Stop Loving You," a single song from his latest self-produced CD Album II. Ed Gordon talks to Kem about making jazz-influenced music on his own terms.