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Host Bob Edwards talks to Representative Mike Simpson an Idaho Republican who came to Washington in 1999 vowing to meet his 434 fellow lawmakers in person. He didn't quite make it, but he learned a few things about the nature of Congress in the process.

Host Bob Edwards talks with the new president of The Nature Conservancy, Steve McCormick. McCormick ran the groups California chapter for more than a decade. He says the Conservancy and its membership are constantly updating the techniques they use to preserve some of the most pristine areas in the world.

- As part of our series of commentaries on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American troops, psychotherapist Jeffrey Harper says that the desire to act towards enemies with cruelty -- and take pleasure from it -- is human nature.

Ingrid Lobet of member station KPLU reports on the scramble to do business in the Russian Far East. Huge reserves of oil and gas as well as timber and other natural resources are about to be exploited, and entrepreneurs who cut their teeth in the Alaskan oil fields and northwestern forests are eager to try their hand in Russia.

Dunn focuses primarily on human nature and relationships...and particularly ones that are flawed in some way.

whose exhibit opened this week at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. The collection of photos, called "Poles Apart," compares and contrasts the landscape of the Arctic and the Antarctic.

The Kinder Morgan deal will likely make the company the largest natural gas pipeline operator in North America. This comes at a time when more people in the U.S. are becoming reliant on the fuel. For more, Robert Siegel speaks with Daniel Yergin, chairman of IHS Cambridge Energy Associates and author of The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World.

A National Institutes of Health conference reviews the latest research on menopause treatments. Many medical professionals question whether natural hormone replacement therapy is safe.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Alice Hill, senior fellow for climate change policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, about how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the environment.