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Immigration protests around the nation last week surprised people with their intensity and numbers. Thousands of students streamed out of classes waving Mexican flags. This week, a few school district

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Former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has been arrested trying to cross the Nigerian border with Cameroon. He vanished after authorities in Nigeria reluctantly agreed to transfer him to a U.N. war crimes tribunal. Renee Montagne talks to Ofeibea Quist-Arcton.

Gavin Hood is a white South African who recalls being raised by a Zulu housekeeper and befriending her young son. But as boys grew older, they were separated. Because of apartheid and segregation, they were not allowed to attend the same schools. When Hood was ten-years-old, he recalls seeing a film called

A group of senators is in Beijing this week, meeting with top Chinese officials about the value of the Chinese currency, the yuan. Democrats and Republicans have authored a bill threatening China with a huge tariff increase on its exports to the United States unless Beijing allows the yuan to strengthen significantly against the dollar.

Georgia lawmakers are expected to pass a bill authorizing a Bible literacy class in public high schools. The class, "History and Literature of the Old and New Testament," will be taught with the Bible as the text. The bill does not require that schools teach the course, or that students take it. Emily Kopp of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports.

Trying to find a way to reach young students and to keep them in school so they graduate daunts educators now more than ever. Students dropping out of school are a distinct problem and the problem is even more pronounced if you are non-white, male and from a low income, inner city family. Three-quarters of African American boys will not graduate from school notes an opening graphic in new documentary,

Iraq's Shiite Muslims are outraged by Wednesday's attack on one of their holiest shrines, north of Baghdad. Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Anne Garrels, who assesses the mood in Najaf, the seat of the Shiite clerical establishment.

Touring the jungles of Las Vegas on a holiday weekend, I began wondering where that city's monuments can be found. I never saw any, outside a cemetery.

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