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How do you create a job? Is there a magic formula? A secret cure-all? Planet Money explores the question this week on This American Life.

Eighty percent of adults who use the Internet have looked online for health info. Two-thirds have looked up a specific disease or medical problem. More than half have checked for info on a particular treatment, drug or procedure.

Huckabee said he that despite plenty of indications that he could do well in the race for the nomination — widespread grassroots support and polls that showed that he had broader appeal to just social conservatives and also a good chance of winning primaries and caucuses, he ruled out a run.

Women in Algeria say a brutal civil war between government forces and Islamist groups in the 1990s was a setback for women's rights. Now, they're starting to regain what they lost, but they say a code that gives them a lower status within the family keeps them from true emancipation.

The new book The Pun Also Rises, by 1995 O. Henry Pun-Off World Champion John Pollack, traces the surprising long and rich history of what some people call the lowest form of humor.

Queen Elizabeth pays a state visit to the Republic of Ireland this week. The four-day trip is the first by a British Monarch in 100 years. Relations between the two nations have been tense since the Republic's 1921 independence and partition from the north and the decades of intermittent violence. Liane Hansen speaks with Irish journalist Conor O'Clery about the Queen's visit.

This past week was an eventful one for the Republican 2012 presidential hopeful field. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Congressman Ron Paul announced that they would run, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced he wouldn't, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tried to tackle his health care dilemma. NPR's Mara Liasson brings us up to date on the 2012 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.

The head of the IMF has been arrested in New York for alleged sexual assault. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is also a possible French presidential candidate, was taken into custody on board a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Host Liane Hansen speaks with journalist Ulysee Gosset, an anchor with French television.

With the 2012 presidential race around the corner, liberals are hoping to rake in campaign contributions by mimicking conservative super-PACs — much to the chagrin of some in the Democratic Party.

Many parts of Vicksburg are already underwater. In some neighborhoods, only roofs are visible; power lines are inches above the water; trees are submerged. Onlookers are making the most of the situation, taking photographs of historic downtown Vicksburg, while other parts of town are unaffected.