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More than 1,300 people with red hair gathered in Portland, Oregon, over the weekend, which the city hopes is a new world record. To qualify, participants had to produce pictures of their younger selves and their naturally red hair.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on Pakistani reaction to the new policy of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service that requires visitors from two dozen Muslim nations to register with the I.N.S. or risk being deported. Many Pakistanis voice outrage at the new policy, and Pakistan's foreign minister is urging Washington to exempt Pakistani citizens.

Noah talks with James G. Wright, Assistant Metro Editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, about aluminum plants on the West Coast, which have discovered they can make more money by shutting down production and reselling the electricity they bought from the Bonneville Power Authority in Washington State. Wright says this is because they locked in the price of electricity with the B.P.A. years ago when natural gas was very cheap. Their contracts allow them to resell the electricity back to B.P.A.

Dogs are attacking and killing deer in Southern Minnesota. Attacks are taking place at Myre -- Big Island State Park, which is in Albert Lea, about 15 miles north of Iowa Border. In the past three weeks 25 deer have been killed. Hardened snow packs are making it easy for dogs to chase the deer; a deer can usually outrun a dog in normal conditions. Noah Adams speaks with Jeanine Vorland, an area wildlife manager for the Owatonna region of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, about the problem.

Factotum is a delicate melding of a trio of different sensibilities you wouldn't think would naturally cohere. It gracefully combines the bleak world of the despairing poet and novelist Charles Bukowski with the droll point of view of Norwegian director Bent Hamer.

Store shelves these days are packed with products claiming to be "eco-friendly." But it's hard to know exactly what that means. An exhibition in New York tackles that question with the help of 10 top designers. The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum — together with the Nature Conservancy — asked the designers to create surprising products out of renewable materials from 10 different areas in the world.

Neuroscientist Jeff Iliff talks about his research, which explores how the brain naturally flushes out toxins during sleep.

Robert Siegel talks to Chris Nuttal (NUT-all) in Ankara (AHN-ka-ra), Turkey about the prospects for the Islamist Welfare Party, which the country's president has given a mandate to form a government. Welfare leader Necmettin Erbakan (NEDG-met-een UR-ba-kan) has said he would try to return the state to Islamic principles, a stance that goes against the secular nature of the modern Turkish state. The test for the Welfare Party will be whether it can establish a coalition with other parties to maintain its power.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports from Nairobi on fears in Africa that the civil war in Zaire could lead to the disintegration of that key nation. Rich in natural resources and bordering nine countries, Zaire is seen as the key to a stable central Africa. There are already unconfirmed reports that neighboring countries are involved on one side or the other in Zaire's conflict. Many fear that an escalation of the conflict could tempt other countries to try to seize parts of Zaire...a move which would throw all of the region's colonially-drawn boundaries into question.