The Story

Peter Reynolds remembers when, as a seven year old, he first heard Ted Kennedy's voice - quivering at the funeral of his brother Bobby.

Not so long ago, the military was having trouble reaching its recruitment targets. The recession has changed that. Jorge Muela was working as a real estate appraiser in Florida when the housing crisis started to take a toll on his income. He looked for other work without a lot of luck and eventually realized he'd found his best option inside an Army recruiting office.

The ACLU says there are over 900,000 names on the government's centralized terror watch list, though TSA says the number is much less. James K. Robinson is on that list - and at least two men have been routinely stopped because of it. Also in this episode, the few schools that teach adults to ride bicycles are experiencing record enrollment. Many students say rising gas prices are a main motivation.Arun Mukerjee, a physician in Cambridge, Mass., recently graduated from a bike riding school. And, back in 1962 when the space race was on, Georg Deutsch approached Steven Schwarcz in the lunch line at junior high and asked, "Do you want to start a rocket society?" That encounter started a relationship that would last for decades, span several rocket experiments, and see their launching of the first non-governmental satellite.

Tanya Chartrand and Gavan Fitzsimons had just gotten married when they came to Duke University as psychology professors. Then Tanya noticed that Gavan had a really annoying habit. Whenever she'd ask him for help around the house, he would do exactly the opposite -- and he didn't even know he was doing it. So they designed a formal research study. Also on the show: Joe Vella spent a year interviewing people who played with John Coltrane and those who heard him play.