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Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem about response there to the Arab Summit and what's ahead for the government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Kate Seelye has a profile of the Iran and Syria -backed guerillas whose reputation has risen in Arab circles since the withdrawal of Israeli troops last May.

Chinese restaurants have never been known for classy ambience, until now. The influence of western tastes and western money is changing the flavor of Kung Pao Chicken. From China, Rob Gifford reports.

The citizens of the District of Columbia have been taxed without representation since the 1800s. Host Lisa Simone talks with Eleanor Holmes-Norton, D.C. and constitution expert Jamie Raskin, of the American University.

Lisa visits the estate of the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriwether Post in Washington D.C. She views emeralds as big as bars of soap and a tiara fit for an empress.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Cairo on the end of the emergency summit of 22 Arab nations.

Residents of Alaska already enjoy the lowest tax tax burden in America. But on election day, voters will decide if they want to place a cap on their property tax. From member station KTOO in Juneau, Anne Sutton reports.

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Bethlehem reports the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza has had a devastating affect on the Palestinian economy. Israel has also suffered economic losses.

In West Virginia, wild turkey hunting season is underway. About ten-thousand of the birds are bagged annually in the state. Hunters try to imitate the turkeys' call to attract them. Dan Heyman of West Virginia Public Radio has a report on the art, science and sport of turkey calling.

NPR's Eric Westervelt has the story of the 1964 recording, A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane. It's a four part piece that expresses Coltrane's faith in God. And it's part of the NPR 100 -- NPR's list of most important American musical works of the last century. (12:30) View the enitre NPR 100 list at: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html.