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At what point does debt start to drag down an economy? Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have argued that a debt to GDP ratio of 90 percent is a red line of sorts. That idea is under attack with economists from the University of Massachusetts charging that Rogoff and Reinhart used selective data to make their case.

In the video, Psy dances up the street and kicking an orange cone that reads "no parking." State-funded KBS says abusing public property does not meet its standards.

Also: an animated interview with David Foster Wallace; the self-publishing trend; and a spirited defense of Justin Bieber.

In Washington's Ward 7, where only 33 percent of students graduate from high school, a program called Life Pieces to Masterpieces is sending nearly 100 percent of its graduates to college or post-secondary education.

Singer-songwriter and Grammy-nominated producer Rachel Faro explores a Portuguese tradition.

The three planets are not only in what's considered to be the "habitable" zone, but they are also near Earth-sized.

Robert Siegel talks to Robert McFadden, senior vice president of The Soufan Group and a 30-year veteran of federal law enforcement, about the latest news in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.

Lawmakers are considering a measure that would offer legal protection to groups that trap, sterilize and return feral cats to their colonies. But wildlife groups and some homeowners say the cats are a threat to public health — and to other animals.

Also: Penguin offers to drop Apple ebook deals over European antitrust case; a page out of Thomas Pynchon's latest novel; and a long-overdue apology.

At the end of a week of many tough news stories, David Greene and Steve Inskeep look back at the week with sound of people and places in the news.