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NPR's Morning Edition and Youth Radio have been giving Israeli and Palestinian youths the chance to share their thoughts about the continuing violence in their homelands. Today we hear from Sara Dansker, a 15-year-old Israeli girl who lives a half hour from Jerusalem, and from 21-year-old Dina Jawhar, a recent college graduate, whose home is a few miles from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah.

A new poll delves into the problems Americans face with their health care. Four out of 10 families report trouble paying their medical bills. NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports that most Americans are against what are called "defined contribution" health plans -- where employers give employees money to pay for health care benefits they find themselves. Find the complete poll results online.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says he thinks a military conflict between India and Pakistan can be averted. "There's nothing inevitable about war," he tells NPR's Juan Williams in an interview for Morning Edition. When it comes to Iraq, Powell is less adamant about the hopes for a political solution.

Photographer and reporter Scott Peterson of The Christian Science Monitor has been covering the war on terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks. He is also the paper's Moscow bureau chief, and a former Middle East correspondent. Peterson recently attended a training camp for journalists to learn how to deal with kidnappers and gunmen. He was also a friend of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl. Peterson is the author of the book Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda.

All Things Considered is taking questions from listeners about the conflict between India and Pakistan. If you want to know more about the history of the conflict, the geography of the region, the military capabilities of the two countries or anything else about this story, share your question with the NPR community.

In 1991, a group of scientists entered Biosphere 2 for a two-year experiment that would test whether humans could survive in a closed environment. The experiment wasn't exactly a success. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, researchers are now trying to show that Biosphere 2 can serve another purpose -- as a laboratory to study Earth systems.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discovered the memoirs of Malvina Harlan, wife of a former justice, and was so taken by the manuscript that she pushed to have it published. In a two-part interview on Morning Edition, Ginsburg discusses the book -- and her life on the Supreme Court -- with NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Actor Om Puri is a star of Bombay's film industry, known as Bollywood. In his two decades of acting he's worked with every major Indian film director including Satyajit Ray. In western films he had roles in Gandhi and City of Joy, and in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown. Hes had starring parts in two British films My Son the Fanatic, and the film East is East. His latest film is the Merchant Ivory production, The Mystic Masseur based on the novel by V.S. Naipaul.

Foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas Friedman. He's just won his third Pulitzer Prize, this time for his "clarity of vision, based on extensive reporting, in commenting on the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat." Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for his international reporting from Lebanon and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting from Isreal. He's also the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, and The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization.

The White House won't mediate the fight between the FBI and CIA, Alberto Gonzales, the president's counsel, tells Morning Edition Senior Correspondent Juan Williams. Instead, Gonzales says, it will let Congress sort out who's responsible for any intelligence failure surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks.