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A need for foreign workers in Iraq -- and the flood of American dollars into the country -- have created a labor network that critics call misleading, illegal and even dangerous. Chicago Tribune correspondent Cam Simpson retraced the fatal journey of 12 men from Nepal.

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.

San Diego Asian Film Festival: Finishing the Game

Forry's 92, you see, and frail.

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.

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.

Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eissenberg in Adventureland (Miramax)

Even when traumatic brain injury is diagnosed in soldiers, many find they have to fight to get adequate treatment. Medical records show brain-injured soldiers at Fort Bliss have been told that their main problems are psychological, not related to blasts. Some soldiers have turned to clinics outside the military to get help.

American experts are at work in Beijing's Forbidden City, helping tp preserve a long-neglected treasure: the elaborate private retreat of the 18th century Chinese emperor Qianlong.

Spain holds its Parliamentary election Sunday. Terrorism is a hot button issue once again, after a former politician in the Basque region was assassinated on Friday; the separatist group ETA is being blamed. Jerome Socolovsky, who is in Madrid, discusses the situation with Liane Hansen.