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NPR's Pam Fessler reports on a bid by minority groups for the Census Bureau to release both the official 2000 census and the figures that include estimates of people the census takers missed. The bureau intends to release both numbers, but the incoming Bush administration could block release of the data compiled with statistical sampling techniques. Positions on the issue have typically broken along partisan lines, with Democrats supporting the enhanced figures. Republicans tend to say "sampling" adds population to Democratic-leaning areas. GOP members also say the basic headcount is more in keeping with the founders' intent for the census.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports President George W Bush and his team have promised a tough line against Iraq. That commitment is setting up what looks like the Administration's first foreign policy challenge. U.S. officials say Saddam Hussein has rebuilt facilities for manufacturing weapons of mass destruction and is preparing for illegal oil exports. The new Bush Administration may feel compelled to move against the Iraqi regime, but its military options are highly limited.

Each night this week on All Things Considered, reporter Deborah Amos is covering the sixty-billion-dollar illegal drug trade in the United States. Today, in the second part of the series, Amos reports on the role Mexico plays in the drug war. Sixty-percent of cocaine on the American market now comes from the United States' southern neighbor. The front lines of the battle are in border towns like Tijuana. There's more at http://www.npr.org/news/specials/drugwars/.

By analyzing white lead paint in Dutch paintings from the 1600s, including works by Rembrandt and Rubens, scientists were able to devise a new line of evidence for dating and authenticating paintings.

Economists at the University of Havana estimate 40 to 51 percent of the country lives below the poverty line.

Former NATO secretary-general Anders Rasmussen explains why he thinks NATO should take a tough line with Russia.

We learn about what old sounds can and can't be restored. Sound restorer Steve Smolian demonstrates how he goes about his job using materials provided by Quest for Sound line callers as part of Lost and Found Sound. From listener Laurie Baker's little sister singing "All Things Bright and Beautiful" to listener Martha Platt's grandmother speaking in Swedish - Smolian uses his talent and specialized equipment to bring back long lost voices.

In the war in Iraq, no one is truly behind the front lines. A large number of women soldiers are among the wounded, suffering from burns and broken bones, lost limbs and disfiguring scars. We meet three such women at the Brooke Army Medical Center facility in San Antonio, Texas.

When the line dropped, 911 dispatchers investigated. They found no prime suspects, but a primate suspect. A Capuchin monkey had made the call after grabbing a phone from a nearby golf cart.

This year judges in four states - Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, and Alabama ruled that congressional maps were illegally drawn around partisan or racial lines to favor Republicans.