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Commentator Daniel Ferri -- a sixth grade teacher -- is a novice to technology. He tried his first attempt at e-mail on a school computer. It was a very scary experience.

NPR's Margot Adler explores the International Toy Fair in New York with Judy Ellis. Ellis heads the nation's only university degree program in toy design.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Republican political consultant Greg Mueller about the mood of the Republican party now that President George Bush has served almost a full month in office.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, being held this week near Washington, D.C.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the U.S. Navy's investigation into the recent submarine collision off the coast of Hawaii. Yesterday, the Navy and Coast Guard called off rescue operations for the nine missing passengers from the Japanese fishing trawler that sunk following the accident.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC in New York reports on the latest battle between the Brooklyn Museum of Art and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. This time the debate is over a painting that depicts Jesus as a naked black woman at the Last Supper. Giuliani says it's time to define the lines of decency when it comes to taxpayer funding of such controversial exhibits.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports on the efforts of an anti-fox hunting group in England. Fox hunting is losing popularity in that country, and a number of measures are currently under consideration to end the sport, but protest groups say they'll continue to disrupt fox hunts until they are banned.

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Robin Urevich reports on a thorny historic issue that may come up when Presidents Fox and Bush meet today. The matter is about money owed to Mexican workers who traveled to the U.S. in the 1940s. Many of those workers were never fully compensated and now they are filing a class action lawsuit.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg takes a look back at the life and career of painter Alice Neel. A new retrospective of Neel's work opens this weekend in Philadelphia.

Billions of dollars in funding for renewable energy is on the table for the U.S. mainland and Puerto Rico.

American and British war planes struck at Iraqi air defense stations outside Baghdad today. The Pentagon says the move continued routine enforcement of the "no-fly" zones by hitting targets that threatened the safety of allied patrols. Linda Wertheimer talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten about the news.