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NPR's Claudio Sanchez has this week's final Changing Face of America story on how technology is changing education. For six months out of every year, children of migrant workers travel the country with their families harvesting crops. This lifestyle makes it difficult for most of them to stay in school, but a handful of migrant kids have been given laptops to keep up with their classes...even when they're working thousands of miles away from home.

Witnesses to a Syrian intelligence officer's alleged war crimes face down intimidation as they testify in landmark trial in Germany — but they continue to tell the story.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on strikes at two military contractors: Raytheon in Massachusetts...which makes most of the patriot missiles...and Maine's Bath Iron Works, which builds Navy destroyers. Workers want better job security, a concern that is industry wide.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Darrin Zeer, author of Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People. Zeer says there's time to relax throughout the workday...while your computer is booting up, between meetings, and even in the elevator. (3:32) Office Yoga: Simple Stretches for Busy People is published by Chronicle Books ISBN: 08118

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore are trying to stay "on message" while getting in a few jabs at each other.

Bellamy Pailthorpe tells the story of a vacationing firefighter David Long, who chanced upon a wildfire in Washington and saved two homes. She talks with the firefighter and one homeowner.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of East Timor's vote for independence. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

There are almost twice as many black women going to college as black men, and this is having both a social and economic impact on the black community. NPR's Byron Henderson reports on how a lack of higher education keeps black men from getting better paying jobs, and how that stress is affecting their relationships with black women.

NPR's Madeline Brand reports Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has made religion a central theme in his campaign appearances. But his emphasis on faith has drawn criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, among others, who say he is blurring the lines between church and state.

Charles Ray of South Dakota Public Radio reports South Dakota is the latest state to be hit with wide scale forest fires. Some of the outbreaks are under investigation as possible arson attacks.