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Even as family farms lose ground to corporate agriculture, city folks feel an emotional pull to farming. But as enthusiastic as they are, they don't know how to grow crops or raise livestock. NPR's Emily Harris visits a program at the University of Maryland that aims to instruct beginning farmers--those who hope to make some money at it, and those who just want to live the lifestyle.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on tough talk from a White House anti-doping task force about the dangerous role doping plays in American athletics. Drug Czar Barry McCaffery wants a cleaner Olympics when Salt Lake City hosts the winter games in two years. But international critics doubt how committed officials are to sacrificing player performance to sobriety.

By election day, the two presidential candidates will campaign in more cities and towns than many Americans visit in a lifetime. Political strategists have calculated which states are "must win" to reach the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidency. But as history has shown, the math is sometimes way off. NPR's National Political Correspondent Elizabeth Arnold reports.

Scott talks with Chris McQuilkin, President and CEO of National Discount Brokers in Jersey City, New Jersey. This past summer, Mr. McQuilkin added the sound of a quacking duck to his firm's telephone menu. He now estimates that eight million people have called the firm's toll free number to hear the duck.

Kate Seelye reports from Kuwait City on the 10th anniversary of Kuwait's liberation from Iraqi occupation. Attending the two-day celebration are former President George Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and retired General and current Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

Robert Siegel speaks with Mike Otterson, spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, about the greater emphasis the church will put on having people refer to the religion as The Church of Jesus Christ, rather than the Mormon Church. It is still OK to call members "Mormons". The Church is timing the emphasis to next year's winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and is designed to remind the public the that they are a Christian Church.

Lisa talks with NPR's Ivan Watson, who is in the West African country of Benin, about the boat full of children that still has not returned to the country. The rusted, aging ship left the capital city of Cotonou on March 30th, and was believed to be taking the children to work as forced laborers. It tried to dock at two different ports in Africa and was turned away. Now there is fear that it may never return to Benin.

Quinn Klinefelter of member station WDET reports on a class action lawsuit that accuses the Detroit Police Department of routinely arresting witnesses in murder cases in an effort to get them to testify. Detroit police arrest an average of three people in every homicide case, a rate that's much higher than the national average. Yet fewer than half the city's murder cases are solved.

NPR's Melissa Block has a remembrance of Roscoe Conkling, a political powerhouse of the late 19th century, who has faded into obscurity. He died 113 years ago today. Conkling was a New York Republican who skipped college but went to law school. He was a staunch abolitionist, and a reputed womanizer. His statue in New York City is being restored.

In many U.S. cities, there are communities of Ukrainian Americans who are now watching the crisis in Eastern Europe unfold.