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For another year, Morning Edition presents the annual Fantasy Thanksgiving Day bash, replete with great chefs sharing supberb food.

Most antibiotics are discovered by studying microscopic organisms that live in the soil. Yet 99 percent of all these microbes are still unidentified, with their biological riches untapped. On Thursday's Morning Edition, NPR's Dan Charles reports that scientists are just beginning to explore this unseen world.

Sandy Tolan reports for American Radio Works on the long Middle Eastern history of animosity toward the West, and America in particular. He says the Arab suspicion of the West reaches back to the days of the Christian Crusades, and has been compounded by more recent history, such as American support for Israel. There is a tension in modern Jordan and Egypt, for example, between a sense of great pride in Arab culture and a sense of defeat by the culture of the West. American films and freedom are admired by many, but American foreign policy is not. American Radio Works in the documentary project of National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio.

The Pelco DX 9000 Plus face recognition device takes pictures of airline passengers, then compares those pictures to its database of several hundred known terrorists. The system is being used for the first time at the airport in Fresno, Calif.

Genetically modified crops have roared into North American fields, with farmers increasingly turning to soybeans, cotton and corn engineered to resist pests and chemicals. But the technology has been met with a mounting wave of protest. On Morning Edition, a talk with NPR's Dan Charles about this saga of scientific breakthrough, intrigue and competition. (Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, is published by Perseus Books; ISBN: 0738202916.)

Linda Wertheimer takes us on a career profile of the late Robert Trout, veteran broadcaster and All Things Considered commentator. We learn about Trout's beginnings at a small Northern Virginia radio station as a janitor/announcer, and follow his career through his rise to covering presidential events and World War II, anchoring the fledgling CBS News broadcasts. His on-air calm steered CBS through the war, and his reassuring presence brought America some of the biggest stories of the day. Fortunately, most of what he did survives in recordings. This profile is an excerpt from a forthcoming NPR two-hour special due out early next year.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg has solace for the stumped gift giver: the best titles from independent booksellers around the country.

Sandy Tolan of American Radio Works continues his report on Middle Eastern attitudes toward America.

NPR's Alex Chadwick gives a year-end update on the NPR/National Geographic Radio Expeditions stories of 2001.

On the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, commentator Walter Cronkite reflects on the lone dissenter in the Congressional vote to declare war -- political pioneer Jeanette Rankin -- and how another lone dissenting vote granting President Bush added powers to hunt Osama bin Laden echoes Rankin's own vote.