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Sens. Mike DeWine and George Voinovich, both Republicans from Ohio, have defied party leadership on two key issues in recent weeks. Voinovich has opposed John Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador, while DeWine helped defuse a showdown on judicial filibusters. David Welna visited southwestern Ohio to see how their constituents view the maverick senators.

In the wake of an Australian engineer's kidnapping in Iraq, Robert Siegel talks with T. Christian Miller of the Los Angeles Times about the thousands of contractors doing business there. Miller says despite ongoing risks, companies have had no trouble finding willing employees.

A famed Kansas space museum finds itself at the center of a criminal case over the fate of several NASA artifacts. The museum's former president has been charged with selling or trading items that were on loan to the museum.

For about 10 percent of people with severe depression, no available treatments work -- not anti-depressant medicines, not psychotherapy, not even electro-shock therapy. Now a revolutionary treatment that entails brain surgery shows preliminary promise in treating intractable depression.

Day to Day introduces listeners to Missy Higgins, a young singer-songwriter who has quickly become one of Australia's most popular musicians. Higgins began singing in her early teens, lying about her age to play at clubs. Hear her perform live at NPR West.

NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Rick Brenner from Boston, Mass., who listens to Weekend Edition on NPR station WBUR in Boston. He fields questions on words starting with "pa."

Though amenities have improved in the past two years, U.S. soldiers at a forward operating base in Baghdad must still deal with heat, tedium -- and an occasional rocket attack launched in their direction.

Israel says it will finish a separation barrier around Jerusalem, which critics say will make a viable Palestinian state impossible. The Israeli government says the wall could eventually be torn down.

In the U.S. Senate, lawmakers are considering changes to a massive energy bill. Over the past four years, this bill has already fallen short of passage several times. Some legislators welcome the debate after the heated partisan fights over judicial nominees.

A Vanity Fair article names W. Mark Felt as the anonymous source "Deep Throat," who helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in 1974.