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Reporter Tamara Keith follows a special crime unit that tracks down agriculture criminals in California. These officers hunt down orange thieves, cattle rustlers and other criminals that cost farmers and ranchers millions of dollars each year.

NPR's Madeline Brand talks with Preston King, who was pardoned last year after fleeing the country in 1961 to avoid draft-dodging charges. He talks about his role in the civil rights movement and how race relations have and have not changed.

Commentator Baxter Black says he wonders where Ford Motor is going with the naming of their new line of cars. He has a few ideas of his own.

Commentator Lenore Skenazy has a secret for greater happiness: banish full-length mirrors. This comes after an unpleasant realization that an old, ugly person seen across the department store turned out to be her, in a full length mirror.

In April of 1970, blues pianist Otis Spann flew to Boston to play a gig. With him were his wife, Lucille, and his band. The concert would be Otis' last. Before he flew to Boston, doctors had diagnosed Spann with terminal liver cancer -- he died three weeks after the concert. Peter Malick was one of Spann's guitarists. He recently found the recordings of the concert. Noah talks with him about the last days of the blues guitarist, and the meaning of that last gig. (6:15)Find out more at: http://www.otisspann.com.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the incoming Bush Administration will take a new, less cordial approach to American dealings with Russia.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Jerusalem on Israel's latest crackdown on the Gaza Strip, following the killing of a Jewish settler, whose body was found yesterday. Gaza has been sealed off, preventing Palestinians who work in Israel from reaching their jobs. The supply of materials going from Israel into Gaza also has been stopped, and that means loss of work for other Palestinians.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from the village of Konculj that the three-mile wide buffer zone along the border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia is far from secure. Under the agreement that ended the Kosovo war, the border strip is off limits to both the Yugoslav Army and the NATO-led peacekeeping force. But ethnic Albanian guerrillas are taking advantage of that void. The rebels are stockpiling weapons in the buffer zone, using it as a staging ground for attacks on Serbian targets within the Presevo Valley Valley of Serbia proper. The militants are fighting to end Serbian rule in majority ethnic Albanian towns in the valley, and to annex the territory to Kosovo. Some residents of villages in the border zone say rebel patrols make them feel more secure from attacks by Serbian forces.

Commentator Elissa Ely recalls embellishing facts as a child to create stories about her family and life.

As the Clinton Administration prepares to leave Washington, NPR's Nina Totenberg examines the career of the nation's first female Attorney General, Janet Reno, and how she's survived eight turbulent years. Reno has held the post longer than anyone in the last 150 years. (12:30)Check out Nina's entire interview with Janet Reno.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on a Supreme Court case that will decide if Alabama can deny a driver's license to someone who does not speak English. Lawyers for Mexican immigrant Marta Sandoval are arguing that Alabama's "English-only" driver's test violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In part two of a week-long series on President Clinton's foreign policy record, NPR's Tom Gjelten examines US/European relations over the last eight years. There were numerous policy disagreements: the Balkans; the future of NATO; and trade. The emergence of the European Union has raised particular US concerns about the future of the NATO military alliance.

NPR's Peter Overby reports Congress will have a busy week of confirmation hearings for President-elect Bush's cabinet nominees. Hearings for Mr. Bush's choices of John Ashcroft for Attorney General and Gale Norton for Interior Secretary are expected to be contentious. But other nominees, such as Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services Secretary and Christie Whitman as EPA Administrator are likely to sail through with few snags.

Commentator Robert Franklin, President of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia, reflects on the role of black preachers in American life. They are at once poets and storytellers and the conscience of the country.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Rio de Janeiro that a plastic surgery revolution is sweeping Brazil this year, changing the image of the girl from Ipanema. Influenced by Hollywood pictures and fashion magazines, in Brazil, big is "in" this year.

New FM radio stations are getting started all over the country. The Federal Communications Commission recently decided to grant licenses for low power stations -- perhaps as many as a thousand of them around the United States. All Things Considered Host Noah Adams talks to people in five communities where new stations have received or are in the process of applying for the licenses. These stations can only broadcast within a range of five to ten miles, depending on the surrounding geography. But for these people, that's enough. Noah speaks to Joe Steinberger in Rockland, Maine; Danny Wilson of the Fellowship of Holy Hip Hop in Atlanta, Georgia; Chukou Thao who's starting a Hmong station in Fresno, California; Andrew Tooyak, an Inupiaq Eskimo in Point Hope, Alaska; and Rich Osborn on San Juan Island in the state of Washington.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from San Alavador on the devastating weekend earthquake that left hundreds dead and thousands missing or homeless. The greatest disaster area was the low-income suburb of Santa Tecla, part of which was buried under a landslide triggered by the violent quake.

Sometimes referred to as the "Pulitzer Prizes of children's books," the Newbery and Caldecott medals are the oldest, most prestigious awards in children's literature. Today, the medals were presented by the American Library Association to the best author and illustrator of children's books. NPR's Shirley Jahad reports.

Scott Jagow of member station WFAE reports on the murder trial of former NFL player Rae Carruth. Carruth is accused of hiring someone to kill his pregnant girlfriend and faces the death penalty if found guilty.

In the first of a five-part series on the Clinton foreign policy legacy, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on President Clinton's mixed record on arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.

The BBC's Caroline Hawley reports on Jewish pilgrims in Cairo.

Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has published a book, and has his own action figure. Now a Minnesota newspaper will start a comic strip to parody the former wrestler. VenturaLand premieres in the St. Paul Pioneer Press the end of this month. The editorial board of the paper had been wanting to find a cartoon based on the Governor for some time. Kevin Lenagh, was just the man to do it, and took the name VenturaLand from a meteorologist who coined it when reporting on the strange weather in Minnesota. Noah talks with Lenagh about drawing the Ventura cartoon. (3:45)You'll be able to view the comic strip on-line at http://www.pioneerplanet.com in two weeks.

Alan Furst specializes in atmospheric spy thrillers set during the Nazi occupation of Europe. Paris in the spring of 1938 is the dateline of his latest book. Alan Cheuse has a review of Kingdom of Shadows. (2:00) Kingdom of Shadows, by Alan Furst is published by Random House.

David Shaper of member station WBEZ in Chicago reports that Motorola is halting cellular-phone manufacturing at its plant in Harvard, Illinois, and laying off about 2,500 workers.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Chicago on rising natural gas prices. Colder than normal temperatures have greatly increased demand for natural gas in much of the Midwest.