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Noah talks to people who have been affected by the cold weather gripping the Midwest. He talks to Jim Miller, who owns and operates a wind farm in Brit, Iowa; and to Antonio Manzanares (man-zuh-NAH-rays) in Rio Arriba (REE-oh ah-REE-bah) County, New Mexico. Miller says that the high winds and denser cold air are good for his farm's productivity. Manzanares describes working with sheep in bitterly cold weather.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports that the United Nations is taking short-term security measures to more carefully screen mail and trying to make long-term security plans. But specialists in terrorism say bombs sent through the mail are hard to stop. Letter bombs addressed to an Arabic-language newspaper were disarmed at U-N headquarters in New York yesterday.

NPR's Dean Olsher sends us an audio postcard from the lobby of a downtonwn Washington law firm. High-powered intellectual property lawyers sing Christmas songs alongside the guys from the mailroom. They sound great, for litigous amateurs.

where clashes between Milosevic supporters and his opponents have darkened Christmas day.

The federal government has released 50 years of previously classified data on the Arctic Ocean, collected by the U.S. and Russian armed forces. Some believe the data will provide new clues into how global climate has changed over the past half-century. NPR's David Baron reports.

The Pinkwater clan has newly acquired an Inuit puppy named Lulu. The dog proves to have a remarkable intelligence and aptitude for training. She is curious, perceptive, and willing to be trained. Commentator Daniel Pinkwater thinks that her bloodline includes some wolf.

Linda Wertheimer's upbringing in New Mexico always included special tamales on Christmas Day. Today, Linda talks with Patricia Quintana, from her family home in Ixtapa, Guerrero, Mexico. Quintana is the author of several cookbooks on regional Mexican food. Her latest is The Best of Quintana. She tells how to make the sweet tamales traditionally made with red colored maza -- corn meal dough -- for Christmas and New Year's. Afterwards, Linda checks in with Mela Leger in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as her family arrives for what she calls their traditional "tamale wars" on Christmas day.

of the delay in signing the Hebron accord and the shooting.

to examine the significance of North Korea's apology to South Korea this week.

has denied an Associate Press story that members had already decided only to reprimand Speaker Gingrich for his admitted ethics violations.