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Scott Peterson, Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, describes what it's like to be on patrol with U.S. Marines in the Fallujah area. Last month, he was embedded with the Marine company that controls most of northeast Fallujah.

The United States plans to transfer about 600 Afghan prisoners to the custody of the Afghanistan government. The detainees are being held at Guantanamo Bay and at a U.S. air base outside the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Several American universities are trying to make stem cells from cloned human embryos. This is what South Korean researchers claimed they had done, before that work proved to be fraudulent. The University of California, San Francisco, is at the head of the pack.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu's son, Tristan, grew up in New Orleans. Codrescu says that bringing up children in the Crescent City presented special challenges.

Smithsonian Institution officials defend their decision to move an exhibit of photos of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to an out-of-the-way location in the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., saying the photo captions advocated protecting the refuge. View some of the photos that sparked the controversy.

The storied label's recorded music and publishing arms will be divided and sold, trimming the number of major record labels to just three: Sony, Universal and Warner.

Residents of Dover, Penn., voted out almost every member of their local school board last week. Eight people ran against a policy requiring the mention of intelligent design in classrooms, and all of them won. Steve Inskeep talks to one of the newly elected board members, Bernadette Reinking.

- The United States is frantically trying to arrange a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO leader Yasir Arafat after four days of fierce fighting in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem. Danny speaks with Terje Larsen, the Special U.N. Coordinator in the West Bank and Gaza about the dangers facing the peace process. Then NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the communal tensions that still grip the area.

Regulators and food manufacturers were caught off guard when a deadly food additive from China turned up in U.S. pet food. Experts say it's a consequence of globalization and America's growing dependence on China for food ingredients.

The road from Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, to the Pakistani border is vital to trade and other concerns. But it's also treacherous, despite recent improvements.

The top-ranked LSU Tigers will be in Tuscaloosa to take on the Alabama Crimson Tide on Saturday, in what some college football fans are calling "the game of the century." But it's hard to know if the clash between the nation's top two teams will live up to the billing.

President Bush visits Denmark to thank Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who has been a close ally in the war in Iraq. Recently, the prime minister extended the stay of some 500 troops in southern Iraq, despite opposition to that presence from some Danish citizens. From Copenhagen, Bush flies to Scotland, site of the annual G8 summit.