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More than bombs are dropping on Afghanistan. Psychological warfare soldiers are dropping leaflets and broadcasting news and music, hoping to frighten the Taliban and foster civilian support. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the military's war of words.

Among some planners at the Pentagon and the White House, the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan is seen as a potential long-term ally, but analysts say the Alliances record in power is marred with corruption and brutality. NPRs David Molpus reports.

Robert Siegel talks with David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars Odyssey, a spacecraft that's scheduled to begin orbiting Mars tomorrow.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on a meteor shower that's anticipated early tomorrow morning. Although predictions have been notoriously unreliable, Sunday's shower could be the most spectacular in over 30 years.

A new 3-D database offers researchers unprecedented details of the human brain. NPRs Michelle Trudeau visits the laboratory of the human brain atlas project in California.

Listeners were asked to write about how they're coping in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In their letters, many from schoolchildren, they spoke of love of country, worries about the economy and fear of further terrorism.

NPR's Robert Smith follows a group of former eighth graders as they make their first nervous steps into a much bigger world -- high school. Smith's report is the first of a year-long series following students and faculty at Roosevelt High School in Seattle, Wash.

Hundreds of artworks were destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center. One man is trying to save what he can.

The paintings and sculptures, some of which are reportedly priceless, had been loaned by Russia to museums in Italy and Japan. Finnish agents detained them at a border crossing over the weekend.

Consumer confidence has been plummeting since Sept. 11. NPR's Juan Williams talks with some employees at an electronics retailer in Virginia to see how they feel about the economy.