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In a one-day visit to Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld praises the country's efforts to register voters ahead of the October elections. Addressing Afghanistan's booming opium production, Rumsfeld says U.S. forces will step up their efforts to crack down on the country's drug trade. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and reporter Rachel Martin.

A host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour takes a look at how the coronavirus is affecting cultural production — and offers some recommendations for home entertainment.

to proposed budget cuts. Germany is trying to cut its Gross Domestic Product level to three-percent -- the level required by countries aspiring to enter the European monetary union in 1999.

between General Motors and striking members of the United Auto Workers. The two-week strike has halted production at 25 GM plants and resulted in more than 140,000 lost jobs.

2: Mezzo-Soprano LORRAINE HUNT. She appeared in Peter Sellars' productions of Handel and Mozart. HUNT has been called the "reigning Handel diva of our day." HUNT's Handel recordings can be found on the Harmonia Mundi label. Her latest is "Handel: Ariodante." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on today's tentative settlement between the United Auto Workers and Johnson Controls, an automobile seat manufacturer. The agreement ends a three-week strike that briefly stopped production of the hot-selling Ford Expedition, when Ford Motor Co. took the unusual step of refusing to accept seats made by non-union replacement workers.

Today is the deadline for hemophiliacs who acquired AIDS from tainted blood products to join a class action suit that would gain them 100,000 dollars in compensation. Critics of the settlement say this class of AIDS patients is being railroaded into accepting less money than they might receive from individual lawsuits. NPR's Vicky Que reports.

Actress and drama coach Uta Hagen joins Liane Hansen to discuss er latest stage role in the Broadway production, "Mrs. Klein." The story is ased on the real life experiences of Melanie Klein, a world-renowned sychologist who analyzed her own children in the 1930's. Ms. Hagen describes ow she prepared for the role of Mrs. Klein, and how she brought these insights o the stage.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that Colombia's neighbors fear that a big anti-drug, anti-surgency campaign by the Colombian government will push the drug problem across Columbia's borders. Peru, which has been very successful in eradicating coca production, already is seeing evidence of a drug resurgence. Lima has requested more US aid to combat the problem.

NPR's Chris Joyce reports from Western China, where the Chinese hope to build a wide network of parks and reserves. This area, however, in the high mountains on the edge of the Chinese empire, is also the ancient Tibetan homeland. The first of two parts in an installment of Radio Expeditions, a co-production of NPR and the National Geographic Society.

Several poultry producers from the state of Georgia are traveling to Cuba this week, hoping to establish new markets for their products. Susanna Capelouto of Peach State Public Radio reports that the trade mission is the first of its kind since the U.S. began it's embargo of Cuba nearly forty years ago. But while chicken is in high demand on the island nation, money is scarce. (

An outbreak of citrus canker is making the Florida citrus industry's recovery even more difficult after the punches landed by this season's hurricanes. There is no known cure for the disease that debilitates citrus trees. The only way to fight it is to destroy infected groves, which ends fruit production for seven years.

Oil wealth has long generated dreams of prosperity, but in the lands of production, the reserves have often brought political and economic instability. In the final part of a Morning Edition series, Sandy Tolan and collaborating reporters look at the jungles of Peru, where residents doubt a gas pipeline project's promise to be environmentally responsible.

The U.S. imports more oil from Latin America than from all Middle Eastern countries combined. Oil wealth has long generated dreams of prosperity, but in the lands of production, the reserves have often brought political and economic instability. In the first of a three-part series, Sandy Tolan looks at what went wrong with Venezuela's oil dream.

Oil wealth has long generated dreams of prosperity, but in the lands of production, the reserves have often brought political and economic instability. In the second of a three-part series for Morning Edition, Sandy Tolan and collaborating reporters look at Ecuador, where citizens wonder what happened to oil's long-promised benefits.

Nearly a century ago, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out a way to tap into the atmosphere's vast reservoir of nitrogen. That innovation led to nitrogen fertilizer, which transformed world food production. But the discovery has also created one of the world's greatest pollutants. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has defied a U.N. Security Council call for a freeze on enriching uranium. President Bush greeted the news by saying "the world is united and concerned" about Iran's nuclear activities. The White House says it believes Iran is pursuing the production of nuclear weapons.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about the rise in the U.S. Gross Domestic Product for the last quarter, and also the big oil deal between Conoco-Phillips and the Russian oil company Lukoil.

The Beatles' original producer George Martin worked on a Fab Four soundtrack to a Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas show, which remixed and combined various Beatle songs. Now, Martin and his son Giles have released a modified soundtrack of that production, an album called Love.

A product of Portland, Ore.'s thriving open-mic scene, Justin Ringle leads Horse Feathers, a folk-pop band that exudes quiet intensity. The strings and accordions on the band's third album, Thistled Spring, are a bit lusher, while Ringle's stories are just as poignant.