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An experiment with 6-year-olds found they worked harder doing a repetitive task when they pretended to be Batman or Dora the Explorer.

The Chattanooga Girls Learning Academy teaches girls from Grades 6 through 12. Its curriculum is centered on Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics - better known as “STEAM.”

A Gallup poll shows 6 in 10 Americans say the U.S. should withdraw some or all troops from Iraq. In February, less than half of those surveyed by Gallup offered that opinion.

Christian J. Collier’s latest collection of poems is titled “The Gleaming of the Blade.” On Thursday evening at 6 PM, Christian will read from his work outdoors at the Hunter Museum of Art in downtown Chattanooga.

President George Bush defends his record on job-creation and managing the U.S. economy during a speech in Missouri Monday as the White House sends its annual economic report to Congress. Bush's economic report predicts the economy will grow at 4 percent in 2004, with 2.6 million new jobs created. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Some 6,000 pages of documents released under the Freedom of Information Act provide new details about the mistreatment of detainees by U.S. soldiers and intelligence personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and NPR's Jackie Northam.

The Black in Appalachia Project - based here in East Tennessee - highlights stories and contributions of African-Americans throughout this region, the Mountain South in particular. On Thursday, the Project’s director William Isom comes to Chattanooga - at Stove Works, starting at 6 PM.

This year, the Read House in downtown Chattanooga is celebrating its 150th anniversary - the longest continuously operating hotel here in the Southeast. Next week, the festivities turn to filling a time capsule - Wednesday, August 17th from 4 PM to 6 PM at the hotel.

Tonight at the Hunter Museum here in Chattanooga, a celebration of Jazz Age Harlem and Paris for Black History Month. Kimmie J. Soul will be one of the creatives presenting “Vision + Verse: Jazz Age Nights,” starting at 6 PM.

Here comes Riverfront Nights in downtown Chattanooga. This Saturday, the free summer concert series of local and area talent returns to Ross’ Landing on Riverfront Parkway, from 6 PM to 10 PM. Mickey McCamish is executive director of Friends of the Festival.