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NPR's Tom Goldman reports the International Skating Union is conducting an "internal assessment" of the controversial judging in this week's pairs skating competition. A skating union official confirmed that the American referee of the pairs competition has complained about pressure being applied to at least one of the judges in the competition. The Russian pair of Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze received the gold medal over Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier on Monday, setting off the first major furor of the Winter Games.

In an exclusive report for Morning Edition from NPR's Steve Inskeep, residents of an Afghan village claim American soldiers killed at least 18 people who were actually loyal to the new government -- and that American officials paid the victims' relatives $1,000 in reparations.

U.S. snowboarders won Gold, Silver and Bronze in the men's halfpipe competition today at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Picabo Street will have to wait at least another day in her quest to win a third Olympic skiing medal. The women's downhill was postponed because of high winds. And a German luger narrowly missed becoming the first Winter Olympian to win four straight gold medals in the same event. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Howard Berkes, who is at the Games. (3:30)

Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton offers up three new CDs of a "minimalist" tone.

Turns out humans aren't the most destructive creatures on Earth. Microbes who spend their lives decomposing leaves are. Commentator Bill Harley has a song about soil bacteria gleefully at work creating entropy.

American speed skating has traditionally been dominated by athletes from the upper Midwest, skaters with hair and skin as pale as the frozen lakes and rinks they raced on as kids. But that has all changed due to the popularity of in-line skating in warmer climates, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports for Morning Edition.

In what's being called the most important war crimes trial since Nazis were prosecuted in Nuremberg, Slobodan Milosevic faces charges of genocide and "crimes against humanity" for his part in the wars that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports for All Things Considered.

In Part Three of her Armchair Gardener series, NPR's Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine tours a Tasmanian garden via the miracle of mobile phones.

Olympic officials are facing accusations concerning double-standards in their anti-doping rules following the dismissal of an American bobsledder. NPR's Tom Goldman reports from the Winter Olympic games in Utah.

The union that represents building service, dining, and grounds workers at Illinois State University has filed an intent to strike notice with the state Labor Relations Board.