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Leda Hartman examines how a third-grade social studies class in North Carolina is using e-mail to teach geography. Students there have received more than 300,000 e-mails from people on every continent. And each time they receive one from a new country or location, they learn all they can about that place.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Sue Hecht, a Democrat in the Maryland House of Delegates. Hecht saw her mother abused in a care home for the elderly, and she has introduced legislation that would permit video cameras to be placed in nursing homes.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Vernon Edenfield, president of the George Washington Fredericksburg Foundation, about the economic considerations that factor into the preservation of historic sites. Edenfield claims if the right balance is struck, conservation and preservation can mean good business for local economies.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from New Delhi on an unusual political fight-- Indian prostitutes want to be counted as workers, instead of beggars, in the country's census.

A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

Ratings for the XFL are dropping fast. The new football league's viewership is down 63 percent since its debut on NBC. Linda talks with Time magazine staff writer Joel Stein, who suggests some reasons for the XFL's problems.

Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. He now faces a criminal complaint alleging he forcibly touched a female staff member.

The Houston, Texas trio Spoon has recorded their first album in three years, it's called Girls Can Tell. The music is rock and roll with a tinge of punk -- and it was released today. Nick Mirov writes about music for Pitchfork Media-dot-Com, he has a review. (4:00) The album Girls Can Tell by Spoon is available on Merge Records, catalog # MRG195, see www.mrg2000.com. Also see www.pitchforkmedia.com.

Napster has offered one-billion dollars to settle a lawsuit with the recording industry. Record labels contend the online music service violates copyrights by helping its users copy music from each other for free. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Chris Arnold about Napster's settlement offer.

Last night's Grammy awards were a combination of the unusual and the mundane. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.