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U.S. forces move to secure cities and oil fields in the north, attacking the city of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's birthplace and base of power. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says much work remains in Iraq, including recovering prisoners of war, searching for weapons of mass destruction and capturing or accounting for the Iraqi leader. Hear NPR's Scott Horsley.

A small new surveillance aircraft, the Silver Fox, will soon be deployed in Iraq to provide a convenient overview of the field. The craft, weighing around 22 pounds, can be launched by catapult or by hand. The Navy plans to ship the drones, costing $50,000 each, to Marines next month. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Capt. John Hobday of the Office of Naval Research.

In Chicago, doctors and former patients struggle to save the Cook County Hospital from the wrecking ball. The county agreed in 1988 to tear down the 89-year-old building once a new, state-of-the-art medical center was built next door. Hear Jay Field of Chicago Public Radio.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expressed doubts that it will ever pinpoint the source of the recent E. Coli outbreak. In Central California's Salinas Valley -- the so-called "salad bowl of America" -- spinach farmers are plowing under their crops and laying off field hands. Tamara Keith of member station KQED reports.

People in northern Kentucky are reacting to the violence in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend. It is near the hometown of James Alex Fields Jr., the man who drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one woman.

Paul Manafort is released from federal prison. And American sports try and find ways to return to the field.

- Daniel talks with Bob Fulton, author of "The Summer Olympics: A Treasury of Legends and Lore" (Diamond Communications/South Bend, Indiana) about the first United States Olympic team. The 13 competitors arrived in Athens, Greece in 1896 for the revival of the long-dormant Games. Their prospects for success were dismal - but they went on to win more gold medals than any other nation in Track and Field. (6:00) ("Our First Olympics" by Bob Fulton, American Heritage magazine, July/August 1996)

for an investigation of a public high school that allegedly misused state funds. The money is typically used to hire more teachers or to buy more textbooks. Officials at Roberto Clemente High School used the funds to send students on field trips to Puerto Rico and Mexico...and to bring in speakers and artists connected to Puerto Rican nationalist groups.

50 years ago this month Jackie Robinson became the first black man to play major league baseball, after signing a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. All Things Considered asked listeners to write and talk about their memories of Robinson. Today, on Opening Day, ATC listeners around the country remember watching Robinson play at Ebbits Field in Brooklyn, how his aggressive play intensified the game, and what his presence on the team meant to them.

more accurately and safely. Every year geologists die while climbing volcanoes to study the movements of the mountains and the gasses they put out. Field work may never be fully eliminated, but remote sensing devices could take some of the danger out of the research...work that is similar to its depiction in the film "Dante's Peak," but not "Volcano."