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The Titanokorys gainesi, which is now extinct, was a 1 1/2-foot-long sea animal — gigantic for its time — with a large protective shell over its head, a toothed mouth and a pair of spiny claws.

We rebroadcast another episode of our American Popular Song Series; this one will profile composer JEROME KERN. He wrote the songs "All the Things You are," "Can't Help Lovin' That Man," "I'm Old-Fashioned," "Ol' Man River," and "The Way You Look Tonight." A number of those songs are from the broadway musical "Showboat" which he wrote. We'll focus on the music he wrote before then, before 1927. Terry will talk with JOHN MCGLINN, an authority on Kern, and we'll hear performances by: REBECCA LUKER, who is currently starring in the broadway revival of "The Music Man", and who also starred in the revivals of "Showboat" and the "Sound of Music," GEORGE DVORSKY who sang leading roles in the New York City Opera's productions of "Cinderella" and Brigadoon." They'll be accompanied by WILLIAM HICKS, assistant conductor and assistant chorus master at the Metropolitan Opera. Original broadcast: 11/01/99 (THESE INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCES CONTINUE THRU THE END OF THE SHOW).12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00...

Today we begin Monday rebroadcasts of our series on American Popular Song. We start with part one of a two-show tribute to composer HARRY WARREN (1893-1981). Warren was a successful but little known songwriter who produced a number of hits during the 1930's and 40's. Some of his best known songs include: "I Only Have Eyes for You," "Lullaby of Broadway," "We're in the Money," and "The More I See You." Warren dreamed of writing for Broadway, but instead migrated west and became one of Hollywood's most prolific songwriters. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST: MAY 24, 2000)First, We feature THE JOHN PIZZARELLI TRIO discussing and performing several of Harry Warren's songs. The trio is JOHN PIZARELLI, guitar and vocals, his brother MARTIN PIZARELLI, bass; and RAY KENNEDY, piano. PHILIP FURIA is currently writing a book on Hollywood's musicals. He discusses the impact of Harry Warren on movie musicals. FURIA is the author of "The Poets of Tin Pan Alley," "Irving Berlin: A Life in Song." He is chair of the English department at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00...

Commentator Yvette Doss talks about doing nothing -- and the book Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz. Yvette Doss is managing editor at Ciudad magazine.

Palestinian computer entrepreneur Hadi Abushahla is determined to run his businesses and lead a normal life. But the realities of daily life in Gaza intrude on his optimistic outlook.

David Greenberger travels the country talking with older people and collecting their stories. In Chattanooga, Tenn., Edna Wofford told him about knowing a bit too much about the future. A collection of stories is on the CD The Mayor of Tennessee River: Music By Shaking Ray Levis.

District Attorney Chesa Boudin said using rape kit DNA to search for suspects in separate investigations treats victims "like evidence, not human beings" and called for the practice to end.

On the event of the publication of the Nobel laureate's memoirs, commentator and independent radio producer Katie Davis recalls first meeting Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1983.

The Getty Museum will return 40 artifacts that the Italian government says were looted. The deal allows the Getty — the wealthiest U.S. arts institution, with an endowment of over $5 billion — to keep one key sculpture, a limestone-and-marble Aphrodite, until 2010.

Five years after the Department of Homeland Security was formed, much of what the government has done in creating the huge bureaucracy seems to be unrelated to what those on the front lines say they need to keep the country safe.