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  • Renee Montagne talks to Senior Correspondent Juan Williams about the heated exchanges between the White House press corps and White House spokesman Scott McClellan about the timing of the release of information on Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting accident.
  • Steve Inskeep talks to Bennett Haselton, an American software developer who has figured out a way for computer users in China to get around the Chinese government's Internet firewall.
  • Authorities have suspended vote-counting one week after Haiti's presidential election. Front-runner Rene Preval claimed that massive fraud was preventing him from winning in the first round. Thousands of Preval's supporters held a demonstration Tuesday night after burned ballots were found smoldering on a dump.
  • Military police in Britain arrest a man after a U.K. newspaper publishes images allegedly showing British troops beating and kicking Iraqi youths. Officials refuse to reveal where the arrest was made or confirm whether the arrested man was a serving soldier.
  • As the Bush administration considers a new "guest worker" program for immigrants, a Smithsonian Institution initiative is documenting the experiences of thousands of Mexicans who worked in the United States as part the now-defunct "bracero" guest worker program.
  • David Festa, the director of Oceans Programs at the nonprofit organization, Environmental Defense, talks with Robert Siegel about the conservation work of Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws. Benchley died Saturday at age 65.
  • Harry Whittington, the Texas lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident Saturday, suffers a mild heart attack Tuesday while undergoing evaluation of his condition. Doctors are optimistic about his recovery, but will keep him in the hospital another week.
  • A crackdown on the media in China during the past few months met with a rebuttal Tuesday from several former Communist party officials. In an open letter, they lambasted the propaganda department for censorship, including the closure of a progressive publication known as Freezing Point.
  • Ted Ligety steals the spotlight from teammate Bode Miller on Tuesday, capturing the men's combined event at the Winter Games. His gold medal is the first overall medal for the American alpine ski team. Ligety had two superb slalom runs in an event combining downhill and slalom.
  • As graffiti culture goes mainstream, hip-hop impresario Marc Ecko launches a new game, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. Ecko talks with Robert Siegel about graffiti in modern culture and Robert Holt offers a review of the graffiti game.
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