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Private relief organizations are increasingly alarmed by their inability to plan for the consequences of war in Iraq.

After months of debate, President Bush today announced the first part of his plan to protect Americans against a smallpox attack.

In the early 1940s when the Army Air Force faced a shortage of pilots, it launched an experimental program to train new ones — the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

After taking several days to review Iraq's weapons declaration, the United States says there are some glaring omissions in the report.

Next year, 2,500 contemporary artworks owned by multimillionaire Friedrich Christian Flick will go on display in Berlin. The collection was rejected as "Nazi blood art" in Flick's native Switzerland.

Noah talks with Tom DeBaggio, his wife Joyce and son Francesco, about Tom's early onset of Alzheimer's disease. This type of Alzheimer's strikes people between the ages of 30 and 60 and progresses more rapidly than another type found among the elderly. DeBaggio and his family run an herb farm. He says he noticed memory lapses about a year ago when he had trouble naming plants he had been selling for 25 years.

Noah talks with Tom DeBaggio, his wife Joyce and his son Francesco, about the progression of Tom's early onset of Alzheimer's. We visited him for the first time three months ago, at his family herb farm in Chantilly, Va. DeBaggio says there is a difference in his condition from the last time we spoke. The disease is progressing more quickly than he had hoped it would.

NPR's Susan Stamberg visits Seattle's Pike Place Market and shares her legendary recipe for Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish with some of the market vendors. Some of them aren't so sure about it...

In the first of a five-part series on immigration in Western Europe, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Italy has become a final destination for illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, and North Africa, as well as a port of entry. Thousands of illegal immigrants -- many Albanians, Kurds, and North Africans -- are smuggled by sea into Italy each year, trying to make their way to a better life in Europe. In the past, Italy was just a way station on the route to Germany or Switzerland. Now immigrants are staying.

As part of our year-long collaboration with independent producers, Lost and Found Sound today turns to veteran broadcaster Robert Trout for a look back at CBS Studio Nine. The New York newsroom was the source of much of the century's news for millions of Americans. During the studio's operation from 1938 to 1964, Trout was one of the men who spent the most time there. He recently discovered some of his tapes.