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Physicist David Albright is president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, D.C. He's the co-author of a new report on A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, that was published in the Spring 2005 edition of The Washington Quarterly. Khan sold nuclear technology and information to Iran, Libya and North Korea. He was reportedly able to do this for the last 20 years, while eluding authorities and intelligence agencies. Albright says Khan's actions have had an impact on nuclear proliferation.

President Bush's call for democracy in the Middle East has taken on new significance since the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister stirred protests for Syria to pull out its troops from Lebanon. The president also points to first-time democratic elections in Iraq, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Mohammed Kamal, a political science professor at Cairo University, discusses democratic movements in the region and specifically Egypt.

This weekend, the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory honor the region's hardworking music teachers with a concert. Such a celebration seems like a good time to explore the state of music education in our schools and look at a new program designed to support music education training called the California Music Project.

A San Diego professor heads to the Middle East to reform the educational system of Qatar, an oil-rich country that wants to learn about the Western style of education. We discover why influential lea

New York City is one of the first places in the country to take into consideration child and health care costs as well as geographic differences when measuring poverty. Backers of New York's method want the federal formula to reflect these real world costs.

Cyclist Floyd Landis faces hard questions about his personal character during cross examination at his doping hearing in Malibu, Calif. The Tour de France winner is defending himself against charges of using illegal synthetic steroids.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits President Bush at the Bush family summer home in Maine this weekend, they will try to revive some of the personal rapport the two seemed to have early in their relationship.

A couple of Clairemont middle schools are gearing up to switch campuses. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

With a NATO war in Afghanistan, the U.S. war in Iraq, in addition to battles between Pakistan and the Taliban, and skirmishes in many Arab countries, questions have surfaced about the role of religion in international conflict. Karen Armstrong, author of several books on religion, takes on the topic of God and war in a recent article of Foreign Policy Magazine.

A recent Zogby poll finds that President Obama's approval rating has sunk to 50 percent — far lower than in other recent polls. But it's not just the numbers that have pollsters in a tizzy: It's the Internet-based methods used in the survey.