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Essayist Andy Borowitz has a few things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

The United States considers putting conditions on food aid to North Korea in response to that country's admission that it has a nuclear weapons program. Moderates in the Bush administration are calling for a diplomatic solution. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

To celebrate its 90th anniversary, Chicago-based Poetry magazine has released a collection of correspondence between the publication and renowned poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. The book is called Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters.

Concord Law School, the first online law school graduates its first class. Because the school is not accredited, many state bars refuse to accept its graduates. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

NPR's Jack Speer profiles influential IBM chairman Lou Gerstner. Gerstner has a new book out called Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? which details his successful efforts to turn the troubled computer company around.

Britain is set to repeal a century-old law that kept pets arriving from the United States in quarantine for months. Pet owners on both sides of the Atlantic hail the decision. NPR's Eric Niiler reports.

A poem about Sept. 11 written by New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka has many state residents calling for his ouster, including essayist Alfred Lubrano.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb remains best known for music he wrote in the 1960s and 70s. His work included Black Angels, a response to the Vietnam War. Now a Crumb revival is afoot, with two works premiering this fall, and a third scheduled for spring. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

The new Midwestern Regional Rail plan from 12 states and the federal government would take billions of dollars to achieve. But Rick Harnish of the High Speed Rail Alliance said the price tag is a fraction of the cost of building Interstate 55 from scratch.

Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus in research and policy circles that public schools are not doing a good job of meeting their needs. In the first of a five-part special report on U.S. Latinos and education, NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports from Gainesville, Ga., on one community's efforts to educate the area's burgeoning Hispanic population.