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The list of the top-performing college endowments came out Thursday. Yale University's investments have beaten the S&P 500's performance for the last five years. Marketplace's Steve Tripoli explains how college endowments work and how schools like Yale manage to beat the market year after year.

Area residents found themselves stuck inside of a crime scene Thursday night and Friday morning. Pictures taken behind window screens and on top of roofs gave the world a look at what people were seeing.

On this day in 1997, Garry Kasparov, the world's top chess player, played IBM's chess-playing supercomputer, Deep Blue — and lost. Now, poker players are trying something similar, and they're winning.

In a Miami tennis tournament, an iguana decided to stop by. It found a perfect viewing spot on top of a little scoreboard.

where he talked about his economic plan, but said nothing about the departure of his two top media advisors. In Ohio, Dole also surprised his audience by speaking out against U.S. support for next week's elections in Bosnia.

with top grade academic qualifications were denied college eligibility last year by the NCAA. These rejections so angered parents, educators and governors that the NCAA has had to respond with new information to schools around the nation.

in deciding whether to recertify Mexico's cooperation in the war against drugs. Mexico's top drug enforcement official was fired last week for possibly accepting bribes from a drug cartel. Despite the detention and dismissal of General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, the U.S. is expected to approve Mexico's recertification.

in Japan related to the Aum religious cult. A senior police officer did not report a junior officer, who was a member of the Aum cult, after he confessed to having tried to kill the country's top-ranking policeman.

Bluesy Blind Pig Records has now been around 25 years -- a long life span for an independent. It grew from a basement operation in Michigan to one of music's top specialty labels. Hear from NPR's John Ydstie, Blind Pig co-founder Edward Chmelewski and singer Deborah Coleman.

Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, plays a pivotal role in both policy and politics. He has gotten credit for the Republican victories in the midterm elections and for the president's high popularity ratings. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.