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A White House commission recommends a variety of ways to promote the adoption of alternative medicine therapies. Critics say the report goes too far and offers false hopes. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

South Carolina has a long and complex Jewish history -- at one point, there were more Jewish families in South Carolina than in any other state. NPR's Joshua Levs reports for Morning Edition on a new museum exhibit exploring 300 years of Jewish life in South Carolina.

There's no question the word OK is universal -- it's used from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and everywhere in between. But how did OK come to be? NPR's Neva Grant sifts through the various answers for Morning Edition's Present at the Creation series.

Though many churches are replacing traditional hymns with more upbeat "praise songs," Dale Wiley is determined to preserve the classic church music of his youth. Hymn fan Wiley shares some old-fashioned favorites with host Bob Edwards.

As the space shuttle Atlantis prepares for its latest mission to the International Space Station, some observers fear the will and money to finish the orbiting laboratory may be running out. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports for Morning Edition.

After the driest fall and winter on record, cities and states along the East Coast have declared drought emergencies. For All Things Considered, John Ydstie talks with people from Maine to Georgia to find out how they're managing.

Mistaken for fish, thousands of sea turtles are illegally slaughtered in Mexico for Lenten meals. Environmentalists are on a campaign to protect the endangered reptiles -- and they want the pope to help. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports for All Things Considered.

Federal law mandates that public schools provide for homeless children, but not many of them do. The government is stepping up enforcement to ensure that homeless kids get a decent education. Advocates from the homeless are divided on how to go about giving it to them. A two-part report for Morning Edition.

Republican senators fall well short of the votes needed to keep alive a proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska. Thursday's vote all but assures that ANWR oil exploration won't be a part of the energy bill sent to President Bush. View a map of the area and a photo gallery of some wild ANWR inhabitants.

NPR's Doyenne of Dirt, Ketzel Levine, reports on the American daffodils that have been muscling in on the garden that once belonged to English poet William Wordsworth.