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The Philadelphia Orchestra today performed a work composed by a 10-year-old. Jasmine Hernandez, a fifth-grader at Potter Thomas Elementary School in north Philadelphia, wrote Nature Brings as part of a competition. She talks to Linda Wertheimer about the piece.

Are you tired of resuscitating limp plants? Is schlepping hoses around the yard getting a little old? Maybe it's time to crib from nature herself and take a more ecological approach to your garden. Join Ketzel Levine and Talking Plants for a look at permaculture.

Poet Tim Seibles celebrates the irrepressible force of nature in his poem "Fearless," recorded this week at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at Hillstead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remains in critical condition at a military hospital outside Paris, amid disputes over the specific nature of his illness and the status of his health. Scores of well-wishers continue to wait outside the hospital, while Palestinian officials pledge unity. Hear Eleanor Beardsley.

NPR News offers a six-part series exploring changing attitudes about immigration after the Sept. 11 attacks. In this segment, NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the Immigration and Naturalization Service has become one of the nation's biggest jailers.

In this final round, every answer contains one of three natural human gaits — "walk," "skip," or "run."

You make me feel like a Natural... Wonders? In this music parody game, contestants identify retail chains that went out of business.

go to the polls tomorrow, will be immigrants who have just received their U.S. citizenship. But the Republicans continue to charge there were irregularities in the naturalization process.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports a little patch of South Central Los Angeles has been transformed from a concrete jungle into a nature retreat.

Out west, Commentator Bill Harley witnessed the spectacular awaken of hundreds of birds as they rise at dawn in a vast nature preserve. It was a pretty picture, until Bill opened his car door, disturbing the scene to the chagrin of bird watchers.