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Walgreens suspends four Illinois pharmacists who wouldn't sign a pledge to fill all prescriptions. Some refused to give customers the "morning after" birth-control pill, citing religious beliefs. Maria Hickey of member station KWMU reports.

The current method of vaccine production, which requires the incubation of flu virus in chicken eggs, may not be up to the task of protecting people from a new strain of deadly flu.

This year, a new piece by world-famous composer Joan Tower will debut in unusually small venues nationwide. Community orchestras banded with other small groups across the nation to commission the piece themselves. Vivian Goodman of member station WKSU reports.

The Pentagon is exploring proposals to give the military a prominent role during disasters within the United States. That might require changing the posse comitatus law, which generally makes it illegal for the military to perform law enforcement duties within the United States. In the second of two commentaries on the law, commentator Austin Bay, a colonel in the Army Reserve, says we should leave posse comitatus alone.

Last month, Robert Siegel visited New Orleans East to see how residents of one block were coping in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He talks to some displaced residents of Honeysuckle Lane.

Robert Siegel continues his conversations with residents of one small street in New Orleans East. He chats with Keia Wyre, who lives at 37 Honeysuckle Lane. She's staying with her mother in Hampton, Va., while she tries to find out what insurance and FEMA will pay her for her water-damaged home.

The shopping district of Atlanta's newest redevelopment project opens Thursday: Atlantic Station is built on the site of an old steel mill near downtown. The idea behind the design is New Urbanism, environments where people can live, work and shop in one space. Time will determine whether Atlantic Station fulfills that vision.

Hurricane Wilma has been downgraded in intensity, but continues to pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with high winds and plenty of rain. It's also crawling slowly toward the northeast, and could hit Southwest Florida by Monday.

Hurricane Wilma hit southwest Florida at dawn as a Category 3 storm, packing winds of 125 mph that damaged homes, downed power lines and brought flooding as far south as Key West. The storm has since moved over the Atlantic Ocean.

Commentator Justin Catanoso's Italian relatives passed along some unusual family update a few years ago: His grandfather's late cousin was under consideration for sainthood by the Catholic Church. This Sunday, in Pope Benedict's first canonization ceremony Father Gaetano Catanoso will become a saint.