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NPR's John Burnett visits a school on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border where Afghan women and girls are learning to read and write. The classes are sponsored by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and they would be illegal in the Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan. Some of the women describe their treatment under the harsh Taliban rule.

Rumors and urban legends have been flying around the Internet at an accelerated rate since Sept. 11. The most popular is the "Nostradamus Prophecy" of "two brothers" -- i.e. the twin towers -- falling and leading to World War II. There's also an allegation that CNN aired 10-year-old footage of Palestinians celebrating. Most have been debunked to one extent or another but NPR's Rick Karr reports that some offer us a kind of truth.

Mitch Teich of member station KNAU reports on a public elementary school in Flagstaff, Arizona, that has its own observatory.

All Things Considered host Robert Siegel speaks with Sari Nusseibeh, the newly appointed top political representative for the Palestinian Authority in Jerusalem, on the path for peace and the need for moderation and reason in the Middle East.

Every day in Texas, more than a hundred people walk out of the state's prison headquarters as free men. The Walls Unit in Huntsville, Texas is where all male prisoners are processed for release. Producer Dan Collison went to Huntsville to talk to some inmates just about to make their return to the outside world.

The Senate-approved Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time permanent in 2023. But some sleep experts say we're about to settle on the wrong time.

As more evidence emerges of Russian troops torturing and executing civilians in Ukraine, Germany is under pressure to cut off a major income stream currently funding Putin's war.

The data has potential implications for public health messaging.

The Sept. 11 terror attacks have had a profound effect on Muslim Americans. In the first of a three-part series, NPR's Duncan Moon talks to Muslims in the 'Little Mecca' area of Falls Church, Va. about how racial and religious profiling is impacting their civil liberties -- and their faith.

Slavery remains a fact of life in some isolated parts of Africa. The Mauritanian government outlawed slavery more than two decades ago, but slavery, in some forms, exists to this day.