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NPR's Richard Harris reports on the watery North Pole. Last month, a group of tourists traveled there, expecting to see ice. Instead, they found open water. Many people are blaming global warming, and suggest this is an unusual phenomenon. But other scientists say so much open water could be due to the season and other weather conditions.

Susanna Capelouto, from Peach State Public Radio, reports on the efforts of an Atlanta suburb to use technology to educate their workforce.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports that more family courts are ruling that children in custody cases should spend equal with both divorcing parents. For example, a Massachusetts judge decided recently that a five-year-old boy should spend alternating years with his divorcing mother and father. Fathers' rights groups approve of the trend; critics say it favors parents' rights over the best interests of children.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on a deeper meaning behind Guernica, the Basque town that was nearly destroyed during the Spanish civil war.

Commentator Frank Deford says what women athletes choose to...or not to wear is fine with him.

Jennifer Schmidt reports residents of Walpole, New Hampshire are attempting to record everything that happens in their town this year. The idea is to leave future citizens with a complete understanding of what life was like in Walpole at the dawn of the millennium.

Host Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Julie McCarthy about the resumption of the Lockerbie bombing trial after a three-week summer recess. On trial are two Libyans accused of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in December 1988, killing 270 people.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Chesterfield, Missouri on George W. Bush's campaign through the Midwest. The Texas Governor intended to focus on education with stops at two elementary schools, but he was questioned by reporters on the luke-warm reception voters have given his tax cut plan.

Carolyn Johnsen, of Nebraska Public Radio reports from Omaha that residents of Boys Town vote today and tomorrow on whether to change the name of the famous refuge for young people. Half of the 33,000 residents are girls. Father Flannigan started his Boys' Home in 1913, and the name was changed to Boys Town in 1926. Girls were first admitted in 1979.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports from Boston on ethics complaints against the Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. Jane Swift may have violated the state's conflict-of-interest law by asking her staff to babysit and move her family to a new house. But some say Swift is being made a scapegoat by conservative groups, who would have applauded a male official for the same things for which she is being criticized.