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Lucy Kellaway has pondered the perils of the annual holiday office party in her workplace column for the Financial Times, and shares some thoughts and advice with Renee Montagne.

Michele Norris talks with Zack Bazzi, one of several American soldiers who filmed their experience in Iraq for the recent documentary The War Tapes. In December, Bazzi, who was born in Lebanon and lived there until he was 10, will graduate from the University of New Hampshire. Soon after that, he'll set off for Afghanistan, where he will be involved in a program to train Afghan troops.

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has announced he will resign within weeks. Bolton's permanent confirmation to the job was blocked by Senate Democrats and several Republicans.

Close your eyes and reach into your wallet. Can you tell the difference between a $5 and a $10 bill? No. And neither can people who are blind. Now, a federal judge is asking that something be added to paper money to make it distinguishable by touch, or by sound.

The bipartisan Iraq Study Group allegedly plans to recommend a gradual troop withdrawal from Iraq when it presents its report to President Bush next week. Washington Post military correspondent Thomas Ricks talks with Mike Pesca about the recommendations that could come from the panel.

Megan Rapinoe will end her career having won at least two World Cups and one Olympic gold medal and having been awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The military promises to help soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with emotional problems, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But an NPR investigation at one base in Colorado finds that soldiers aren't getting the services they need.

Re-entry to society from prison is hard. A simulation exercise by the Department of Justice is meant to show just how many barriers formerly incarcerated people face after their release.

Following the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, British authorities are following a trail of radioactive contamination. Litvinenko died from the effects of absorbing a rare radioactive element, Polonium 210.

Robert Siegel talks again with D.T. Max, author of The Family that Couldn't Sleep, about Robert Bakewell, the 18th century agriculturalist who introduced stockbreeding methods that changed the quality of Britain's sheep and cattle.