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One day after New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer admitted involvement with prostitution, NPR's Mike Pesca reports on how the news is playing in Albany.

Scripps Glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker was awarded the Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica for her work on sub-glacial lakes and remote sensing techniques. We'll talk to her about Antarctica, which she calls the most unobservable place in the world, and the work she's doing to detect changes in the ice sheet. We'll also find out about the iceberg, four times the size of Manhattan, which just broke apart from Petermann Glacier in Greenland and began drifting into the Nares Strait.

The Counterfeiters

The San Diego Unified School District is facing a potential leadership overhaul. That's because three of the five San Diego school board members are up for reelection next week. One of the seats up f

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NASA's administrator says the agency will reveal the results of an aviation survey that found near collisions, runway interference and other safety problems occur far more often than previously believed.

Romeo and Juliet Get Married (O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta)

The California Attorney General's office has agreed to have a second look at a number of officer-involved shootings in San Diego County. Full Focus reporter Joanne Faryon has the story.

Based on a book that Burton wrote and illustrated, the film of

As the U.S. continues what has now become an eight-year war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration must decide on its new military strategy. One group that is often largly looked over when considering Afghan policy is the women who live in the region. Host Michel Martin talks with Ann Jones, writer of the recent article for The Nation "Remember the Women?," and Shamim Jawad, who leads the Afghan children's advocacy group the Ayenda Association, about the role of the war in the lives of the country's children.