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Former All Things Considered host Robert Conley remembers his time on the show

Whew, it's been such a fun day at NPR. Here's what we've been doing to celebrate NPR and ATC's 40th anniversary.

Director Kathryn Bigelow has been working on an adaptation of the book Kill Bin Laden. It's about the failed attempt to take out bin Laden in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, in 2001. Now that bin Laden is dead, the project may need tweaking.

At the heart of the Republican plan is a proposal to give everybody in the program a subsidy to buy private health insurance. Its supporters say it would reduce health care spending. But critics contend it allows the government to spend less on Medicare by making patients pay more — potentially a lot more.

In an extended interview with NPR, Eric Holder blamed Congress for blocking the New York trial of the accused masterminds of the Sept. 11 attacks. He said terrorism was the Justice Department's top priority, and "deplored" the release of the WikiLeaks memos.

With gas prices topping $4 a gallon in parts of the country, small cars sales have raced ahead. General Motors says its passenger car sales rose 49 percent — spurred on by sales of 25,000 Chevy Cruze cars. At Ford, the Focus helped propel that carmaker's sales. And, Chrysler also enjoyed big gains.

The tornadoes that raged Alabama scattered lives, families and debris. And also water bills, check stubs and photographs. One person picked up so many personal documents she found scattered in her yard, she decided to create a Facebook page for them.

CIA Director Leon Panetta says the Obama administration should release graphic images of Osama bin Laden's corpse. The White House says no decision has been made yet. The White House also revised details about what happened during that 40 minute firefight at bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.

Another crop of tablet computers is coming out. Bloomberg technology columnist Rich Jaroslovsky talks to Steve Inskeep about whether any of them can compete with Apple's iPad,

Pakistan has indicated it was never asked and never gave permission for the U.S. assault that killed Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani leadership told the United States that the raid must not "serve as a future precedent," saying it would undermine international peace.