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The Federal Reserve Bank moved Wednesday morning to ease a global credit crisis, announcing a plans to offer $40 billion in emergency funds to banks through an auction process. The move was coordinated with other major central banks and is designed to increase liquidity around the globe.

At Monarch High School, administrators are under fire for reading and transcribing messages from students' cell phones as part of a disciplinary investigation. The ACLU and some students accuse the school of breaking the law by conducting the searches.

After 10 years of liberal government in South Korea, the political pendulum is about to swing the other way in the country's presidential election Wednesday. The former mayor of Seoul, the conservative standard bearer, leads a field of 12 candidates, but he has been tainted by financial scandal. Still, his principal challenger, a former minister in President Roh Moo-hyun's Cabinet, admits that it will be a miracle if he wins.

Responding to a wave of recent food and product recalls, the Bush administration has announced an initiative to expand the authority of federal regulatory agencies.

Many war veterans have personal collections of memorabilia from combat — everything from mortar rounds to journal entries to old military equipment. Bill Brewster, curator at The Wisconsin Veterans Museum, talks about collecting and presenting artifacts from men and women who have experienced war.

As the price of oil approaches $100 a barrel, this week NPR will look at the reasons for the run-up in prices and the implications for the world economy. Reporters will examine a variety of issues relating to high oil prices. Jacki Lyden looks ahead to the series with NPR's Uri Berliner.

More than any other food, oysters taste like the place they come from. Rowan Jacobsen, author of A Geography of Oysters, explains, describes and slurps his way through a sampling of succulent raw oysters.

Josh Brolin, who plays laconic Llewelyn Moss in the much-praised new Coen Brothers thriller No Country for Old Men, talks about his appetite for surprising characters and working with the filmmaking brothers.

Photographer Allan Tannenbaum was given rare access to John Lennon just 10 days before the artist was killed. He discusses his decision to wait 27 years to publish the intimate photos he shot of Lennon and Yoko Ono.

For two decades, Diana Walker was the White House photographer for Time magazine, clicking her camera through five administrations. Walker's new book is filled with portraits that go far beyond the usual "photo ops."