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, has turned the once-gray city into a festival of lights.

who perform in New York City's subway. The C.D. is called " Subplay" and it mixes 10 different styles, from blues to jazz to Chinese folk music. " Subplay" was produced by two young native New Yorkers who grew up listening to subway concerts.

NPR's Dean Olsher looks at the prosperous business built around re-issued jazz recordings.

Scott speaks with Jim Naydar, host and producer of W-B-E-Z's (Chicago) "The Annoying Music Show."

Scott talks to George Campbell, a descendant of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of "Anne of Green Gables". It has become quite common for Japanese citizens to fly to Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, Canada to get married where the fictious Anne was married in the book.

The deadline has passed for submissions to our Thanksgiving ssay contest

Investigators say they are racing to keep up with an explosion of child pornography made possible by computer networks. They say the Internet makes creating and circulating sexually-explicit material easier than ever. Congress has tried to help law enforcement in its crackdown by passing a new law that expands the definition of child pornography. But NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that civil libertarians say the law infringes on the constitutional protection of free speech.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren says as a young girl she was taught to remember the poor -- to be generous and share. Now she says there is little respect for the poor...they are seen as evil and the demonization of the poor is breeding cynicism about poverty. She worries that the plight of the poor in general no longer moves us. Rather, we are only moved by an interruption in our own material success.

about the current state of the hostages in Lima, Peru. The Red Cross delivered Christmas cakes to the captives who will spend Christmas Eve away from their families in the company of heavily-armed guerillas.

A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that dietary suppliments of the trace element selenium protect against cancers of the lung, prostate and colon. NPR's Vicky Que reports that researchers involved in a 13-year investigation of a possible link between selenium and skin cancer found no protective effect but they did find that the research subjects had a 37 percent reduction in the incidence of lung, prostate and colon cancers after only 4 1/2 years.

Storyteller Kevin Kling remembers a Christmas from his childhood... when his eager anticipation turned into performance anxiety: he suddenly had to demonstrate his ability to fly a gas-powered model airplane in front of his father -- a real pilot.

to address the controversy over illicit campaign contributions to the DNC at a news conference today. The Republicans are stepping up their calls for investigations of the affair.