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Liane provides an overview of the past week's news, weather and sports in South Dakota.

Poet and author Kathleen Norris reads an adaptation from her award-winning book, Dakota: A Spiritual Journey, telling of the geographic and social hallmarks that have drawn people to the state, and made it so great a challenge for natives and settlers to make their lives in the Dakota Territory.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with NPR's Julie Rovner about the health care proposals from presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush. Rovner says that while Universal Health Care Coverage was the buzz word in health care reform some years ago, there's been little mention of it this election season - except from Green Party candidate Ralph Nader.

Most people don't think of rivers when they think of Los Angeles, but in fact, the city does have one. And as Laura Sydell reports, activists are working hard to beautify that body of water which has become much more closely associated with scary scenes in movies than a bucolic retreat for local residents.

US immigration is at its highest level in decades. Many of those are arriving are women and children -- and groups that work with domestic violence shelters say they are increasingly receiving pleas for help from these women. This week, the Senate takes up the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which strengthens previous domestic violence legisation and gives refuge, counseling and legal status to foreign women married to American citizens or residents. Host Jacki Lyden follows one woman's journey from New Delhi to New York, from abused bride and spouse to safety and self-empowerment. This piece was produced by Davar Ardalan. There is more on our special page.

NPR reporter Martin Kaste visits the beachs of Copacabana and Ipanema where Brazil's beach volleyball teams practice for the Olympics. The women's team is the favorite going into the games, which will be played for the first time this year on real sand.

Liane stops at Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota's biggest tourist attraction, and speaks with a visitor who found inspiration in the mountainside carving of the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Liane looks out across the Missouri River from a spot where Lewis and Clark camped on the expedition to explore a passage to the Pacific Ocean.

From the Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota's Black Hills, flutist Lakota George plays a native song.

NPR News Correspondent David Welna chronicles the story of the town of Mitchell, first built during the era of the railroad and now struggling to stay alive as farming communities in the surrounding area lose their young people to economic opportunities away from the land.

On archival tape from the University of South Dakota, the late Cowboy Poet Badger Clark reads the first poem he ever published.

NPR News Correspondent Howard Berkes visits with his father-in-law and tells the story of one family farmer who first plowed his fields with a team of horses and now is trying to start a co-op to turn corn into ethanol, an effort to get better prices for crops while producing a cleaner fuel. (7:38) NOTE: (Puzzlemaster Will Shortz is off this