As far as recreational drugs that could have health benefits go, ecstasy doesn't exactly have a lot of champions. Instead, the drug, so often associated with raves, has been fingered as responsible for fatal overdoses, depression and problems in fetal development.

Egypt's presidential runoff election on Saturday and Sunday was supposed to bring some badly needed stability to a country that's been unsettled since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

But two days before the election, Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court plunged the country into a full-blown political crisis by ruling Thursday that parliament must be dissolved because part of it was elected illegally.

Monday, June 18th: SETH WALKER - Time Can Change

Tuesday, June 19th: BEN HOWARD - Every Kingdom

Wednesday, June 20th: DR. MICHAEL WHITE: Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Part 2

Monday, June 18th: SETH WALKER - Time Can Change

Tuesday, June 19th: BEN HOWARD - Every Kingdom

Wednesday, June 20th: DR. MICHAEL WHITE: Adventures in New Orleans Jazz Part 2

Alaska Natives are twice as likely to get colon cancer and die from it as the white population in the United States. When Mayo Clinic doctor David Ahlquist took a trip to Bethel, Alaska, in the mid-1990s, that startling statistic caught his attention.

"Here they had one of the world's highest rates of colon cancer and one of the world's poorest outcomes in terms of survival from cancer, because of late diagnosis," Ahlquist says.

TODAY until 6PM you have an opportunity to win a trip for two to New Orleans, LA.

The package includes a 4 night stay at W New Orleans - French Quarter from September 5-9, 2012.  Airfare for two from the continental USA is included along with vouchers for you to enjoy beignets at Cafe Du Monde and a swamp/plantation tour with Cajun Pride Swamp Tours.

Jamie Lynn Stevenson can still remember the smell of walnut meringue cookies wafting from her great-grandmother's kitchen. The "little piles of heaven," also known in her family as bussels, or "kisses" in German, were dense but chewy, with hints of caramelized nut flavor inside.

"I was just salivating waiting for them," Stevenson recalls. "And the great thing about these cookies is that they didn't take very long to bake!"