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Robert talks with Russ Buettner, a reporter at the New York Daily News about how a Long Island-based anti-abortion group raised over 2-million-dollars to support anti-abortion candidates. But only one-percent of the money has gone to political campaigns. The rest has been taken by the direct marketing firm making the fundraising calls.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports Florida is offering motorists a new license plate featuring the slogan "choose life." Money from the sales of the new tags go to promote adoption. But abortion-rights groups say the message is inherently religious, and therefore unconstitutional. They've lost a round in court, but are still fighting against the plates.

Commentator David Weinberger says making predictions is a waste of time, especially when it comes to trying to guess the future of technology.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that Russian president Vladimir Putin finally flew to the Northern Fleet's base near Murmansk -- ten days after the submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea. With the rescue attempt called off, talk has now turned to bringing up the bodies of the 118 men on board.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on the first day of a two-day meeting about the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. Members of the National Transportation Safety Board are discussing what the staff has compiled on the crash. They're also preparing to approve the staff report on the probable cause. The board is expected to vote tomorrow, and release safety recommendations. The staff has concluded, as has long been accepted, that the center fuel tank exploded and destroyed the airplane, killing all 230 people on board.

Commentator and psychiatrist Elissa Ely says a Bible study group among patients at the hospital where she works provides some interesting theological insights.

Jennifer Schmidt reports residents of Walpole, New Hampshire are attempting to record everything that happens in their town this year. The idea is to leave future citizens with a complete understanding of what life was like in Walpole at the dawn of the millennium.

In a lawsuit against the state, Alaska is being charged with providing substandard police protection to the rural - largely native Alaskan - villages. The plaintiffs conclude that this is a decades old pattern of discrimination that is racially and geographically based. For NPR News in Anchorage Anne Sutton reports.

A woodchuck spent ten ecstatic days in Commentator David Budbill's garden before Budbill shot it, to preserve his vegetables. Budbill grieves for the woodchuck and for himself.

Heavy fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces in the disputed border area of Kashmir broke a cease-fire today. Zaphar Abash, of the BBC, reported from Islamabad that both sides are accusing the other of starting the clash.