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Two hundred years after Lewis and Clark made their trek up the Missouri, the river has gone from a raging giant to a harnessed conduit. It's so docile some environmentalists want it restored to a more natural condition. NPR's Greg Allen reports.

When can you break a promise? NPR's Debbie Elliot and New York Times ethics columnist Randy Cohen respond to one listener's dilemma over whether or not he should break a committment and leave his job.

Each election year, Washington Post columnist and political correspondent David Broder and his colleagues gauge the political pulse of the nation the old-fashioned way: They knock on doors in key swing states and ask the voters. Broder talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Over 37 million men and women have served in the armed forces and fought in the major wars this century. They bequeathed us a legacy of recorded sound that captures the breadth of experience of war, as Quest for Sound Curator Jay Allison demonstrates.

The historic abundance of whitetips may have been overlooked, says a new study. If so, the shark's population has been cut by 99 percent in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to record producer Jonathan Fine about his recently released music and spoken-word compilation CD Black Power: Music of a Revolution.

In a recent interview with NPR, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the situation in Iraq "continues to calm down." But a recent report from The Boston Globe shows the rate of American casualties in Iraq actually rose in July, after the transfer of sovereignty. NPR's Steve Inskeep discusses the situation in Iraq with Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute.

Archaeologists are on a mission to unearth the history of the Olympic Games in Nemea, Greece. The project looks back some 2,700 years, when athletes competed much like they do today -- only in the nude, and barefoot. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for the NPR/National Geographic co-production Radio Expeditions.

President Bush says he would consider major changes to the nation's intelligence services in response to the report expected this week from a bipartisan commission. The panel has been probing what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, and how it might have been prevented. One idea is to create a cabinet-level chief of all intelligence operations. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

A staff report delivered to the bipartisan commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks finds "no credible evidence" that Saddam Hussein cooperated with al Qaeda in those attacks. The staff report said Osama bin Laden contacted the Iraqi government about gaining support from that country but had been rebuffed. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.