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A montage about all of the technological changes 30-year-olds have seen in their lives.

Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is 30. She introduces a song off her new album, Reckoning/Revelling, that is about living the last 30 years. (1:30) Reckoning/Revelling by Ani DiFranco is on Righteous Babe Records.

Between 1965 and 1975 the divorce rate doubled. According to one survey -- a third of young adults say they're parents divorced before they turned 18. For 30-year-olds, to be a child of divorce was -- for the first time -- not unusual. It has influenced their childhoods and the ways that they make decisions about their adult lives.

Many 30-year-olds cite one movie as the most influential of their childhood: Star Wars. Novelist Silas House explains how Star Wars changed his life.

The United States Army will load its M-16 rifles with a new kind of ammunition -- bullets that are lead-free. Noah Adams talks with Michael Dette, chief of technology demonstration at the Army Environmental Center in Aberdeen, Maryland.

Eric Engleman reports on the first trial of a high-ranking Russian officer for a war-related crime against a Chechen. While there have been hundreds of reported human rights abuses in the Russian war on Chechnya, most haven't been prosecuted.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Thanh Phong, Vietnam. The village is the focus of the controversy about former Sen. Bob Kerrey's war record.

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta reports on a class action lawsuit filed against Georgia Power, one of the largest energy providers in the east. Several African American employees say there is a history of racial discrimination at the company, including harassment and low rates of promotion for black employees.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Tom Rosenstiel, Director of The Project for Excellence in Journalism. The group has released a new study that compares news coverage of the early days of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the beginnings of union organization among illegal workers, a previously non-organized part of the workforce. Aubrey focuses on hundreds of workers at a poultry plant in Selbyville, Delaware, that are beginning to speak up.