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NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on the 20-year patents Canada gives to pharmaceutical companies. The wealthy firms have powerful influence over which drugs are developed, and who can get them. The issue is at the center of a contentious trial in South Africa over that country's laws which allow generic drugs for AIDS.

At the same time, day care centers are struggling to find workers.

In Iraq, the bodies of at least 41 people -- some headless -- have been found at two separate sites. Meanwhile, a massive truck bomb exploded in the center of Baghdad, killing three people including the bomber.

As the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, commentator Craig Childs remembers the thousands of people who died at his feet as he walked near the World Trade Center that day. He describes how he reconciles that memory with ordinary life in a small Colorado town.

Nearly three months after the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq, insurgents continue to disrupt the interim government's efforts to achieve control. Hear NPR's Scott Simon, Bathsheba Crocker of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Gen. William Nash of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Our resident political poets, Calvin Trillin and James Bowman, offer their take on the third and final presidential debate. Trillin is the author of Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme. Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

More than 1,100 American troops have been wounded in action in Iraq. Many face long, difficult months of rehabilitation. NPR's Joseph Shapiro profiles one Marine learning to walk again at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Iraq's reconstruction remains bogged down, and frustration is growing among Iraqis over delays in the resumption of basic services. But some progress is being made. NPR's Linda Wertheimer speaks with John Hamre and Bathsheba Crocker of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The recovery effort at the site of the former World Trade Center officially ends Thursday, but the search continues at Fresh Kills landfill, just across the harbor on Staten Island. Officials there are still poring over millions of tons of "Ground Zero" rubble, looking for remains, personal effects and evidence. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks to NPR's Phillip Davis about problems in today's Florida primary. The state, which was the center of attention for its election problems in the 2000 presidential race, spent millions of dollars revamping voting machines in time for 2002. But this morning, there were machines that failed to work, or took a long time to work.