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New design proposals for rebuilding on the World Trade Center site include a wider variety than early entries, but tall towers remain a common element. A final design choice is expected in February. Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC reports.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London on a British court ruling that twin girls at the center of a trans-Atlantic adoption battle must remain in temporary foster care. The judge postponed a final decision on the babies' custody. But he upheld the actions of child welfare authorities, who removed the twins from the home of a Welsh couple named Kilshaw. The Kilshaws had adopted the babies through an American agent advertising on the Internet. The girls had already been taken in by a California couple, but that adoption was not finalized.

Noah Adams talks with Steve Sternberg, a reporter for USA Today about the 8th Annual Retrovirus Conference in Chicago. At the conference, the Centers for Disease Control announced it will use a new tactic in fighting the spread of the AIDS, emphasizing the need to educate people already infected with HIV. The goal is to cut the number of new infections in half by the year 2005. Also released at the conference: a study that shows a third of gay black men in large U.S. cities are HIV positive.

Robert talks with Judith E. Daykin, President of City Center in Manhattan, about the discovery of valuable scripts in a closet that may not have been opened for forty years. The scripts were in Max Liebman's closet. Liebman was a producer of the early television comedy series Your Show of Shows, The Admiral Broadway Revue and other television productions. He died in 1981, and the closet in his office was closed and painted shut.

The South has more people living with HIV and AIDS than any other region of the country. It is spreading faster in Southern states like Georgia and Florida than in urban centers like New York and San Francisco. Commentator Michael Alvear is a nationally syndicated sex advice columnist based in Atlanta. He thinks he's identified a factor that contributes to the spread of HIV in the South -- the culture of politeness and indirectness.

NPR's Margot Adler was in Harlem today to witness a deal resolving a longstanding controversy over what should be done with the papers of the civil rights and religious leader Malcolm X. The six Shabazz daughters agree to deposit the documents, photos and audiotapes with the Schomberg Center and the New York Public Library for 75 years. The family will retain intellectual and property rights, yet the public will have access to the archived materials.

The city selected a proposal from the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to determine the fate of the statue.

London is a center of the global financial industry, and it's now expected to lose thousands and possibly tens of thousands of jobs.

Hurricane Jeanne, leaving a devastated Haiti in its wake, could hit Florida's Atlantic coast by Sunday. And Hurricane Ivan, which tore through Alabama and the Florida Panhandle last week, has doubled back and is gathering strength again in the Gulf of Mexico. Hear NPR's Michele Norris and Dan Brown of the National Hurricane Center.

A Scientology-based drug treatment center has been offering free anti-drug lectures to California schools. NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks to Nanette Asimov of The San Francisco Chronicle, who has reported that the lectures are not just religion-tinged, but filled with bad science. The San Francisco School Advisory Board has ended the lectures.