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The U.S. Marine Corps is testing new camouflage fatigues that will be safer and more comfortable in the field. From member station KPBS in San Diego, Russell Lewis reports.

Linda talks with Jane Nober, Special Council with The Council on Foundations in Washington, D.C., about false organizations set up just to take people's money.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen clashed in several parts of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank today. The escalating violence came amid signs Israel's Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon may succeed in efforts to form a national unity government made up of his Likud faction and the Labor Party.

From member station WUNC, Jessica Jones reports on North Carolina's efforts to include students with learning disabilities in its statewide testing program.

Commentator Owen Gleiberman doesn't like the so-called "director's cuts" of movies that are increasingly available on DVDs.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. The newly elected leader of Israel, Ariel Sharon, has sent a delegation to talk with the Bush administration.

Andrea Bernstein of member station WNYC in New York reports that former President Bill Clinton is rebounding in local public opinion after announcing new plans to place his office in Harlem.

Josephson tells us some of his favorite mohel jokes.

Crittenden is a former reporter for The New York Times. Shes the author of the new book The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued. In the book, Crittenden writes about the cost to mothers when their work is unrecognized and undervalued. For instance, because child care is not counted as labor, caregivers receive no Social Security credits, and as a result they lose out on retirement income. Crittenden spent five years research on her book talking to economists, socicologists, and to mothers.

Cantor Philip Sherman is a mohel who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision on the eighth day of a baby boys life. In his twenty-two year career hes performed about nine thousand. His grandfather was also a mohel.