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Tina Fey, the first female head writer of Saturday Night Live, talks about her status as a ground breaker and role model.

The space shuttle Columbia disaster leaves Russia's space program with the responsibilty of maintaining the international space station while shuttle flights are grounded. Russia says it needs U.S. financial help to achieve that. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

Pentagon officials say they're starting to see a breakdown among Republican Guard forces outside Baghdad as ground battles and heavy airstrikes take their toll. The Pentagon also raises the possibility that Saddam Hussein is dead or in flight. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Fracking is a way of bringing up natural gas by pumping water and chemicals into the ground. Germany's powerful beer industry is worried that fracking would pollute groundwater.

The San Francisco Zoo was closed Wednesday as police swept the zoo grounds after a tiger escaped Tuesday, killing a 17-year-old and mauling two others. The Siberian tiger was shot and killed by police officers.

In a land where the ground is always frozen, one creature has nourished man both physically and spiritually. Anthropologist Piers Vitebsky discusses The Reindeer People, his book about the Eveny herders of Siberia.

Commentator Frederica Matthews-Green has found one area of common ground in the abortion debate: adoption. She says both sides can agree that adoption is far preferable to abortion. Women who have given children up for adoption feel bittersweet, she says. Women who have had abortions just feel bitter. Matthews-Green is the author of "Real Choices," published by Quest Star.

and the Republican Congressional leadership including Republican presidential frontrunner, Bob Dole. The President called for the meeting at the White House to seek common ground on the balanced budget, health insurance, welfare reform, and anti-terrorism legislation.

In an effort to keep out drugs and weapons, many U.S. schools now conduct random searches of students and their belongings. Twice this year, school security guards conducting these random searches happened to select sixteen-year-old Matt Smith for investigation, and he found the experience unsettling. Now, he is suing the Norfolk, Virginia school district on constitutional grounds. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

Linda talks with Manny Rodriguez, a firefighter and paramedic for the city of Miami. Rodriguez talks about what he saw when he responded yesterday to an accident involving a Brinks truck in one of the poorest sections of Miami. Money was scattered in trees and all over the ground, and people were scooping up as much as they could carry. Rodriguez himself found a canvas bag containing over $300,000.