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NPR's Scott Horsley reports Ford Motor Company and telecom giant Qualcomm will offer wireless communication systems to new cars. The venture, called Wingcast, will be installed in all new Fords by 2004, giving drivers access to e-mail and wireless Internet services. But some worry that these distractions will affect road safety.

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Linda and Robert read letters from All Things Considered listeners. (2:45) Send e-mail to: atc@npr.org or traditional mail to: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20001.

Noah talks with Stephanie Hobbs, spokeswoman for Verizon Communications, about new telephone directories allowing customers to offer more information about themselves than just a name and address. Customers will now have the option of listing e-mail and Web page addresses too.

It's Thursday, and that means we'll hear from listener letters. (3:45) Write to Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC, 2001. E-mail atc@npr.org.

Noah and Robert read some of the letters All Things Considered received from listeners this week. (4:00) Write to: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001 or send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

Linda and Noah read letters from All Things Considered listeners. (4:00) Write to "Letters," All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001. Send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

NPR's Rick Karr reports that the internet is at the center of the campaign against the nomination of John Ashcroft as Attorney General. The question is how effective are e-mail and activist web sites at attracting and engaging citizens and what impact do the efforts have on Capitol Hill?

Linda and Noah read letters from All Things Considered listeners. (4:00) Send mail to Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001. Send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

Robert and Linda read a few of the letters sent to All Things Considered this week. (3:30)Send e-mail to atc@npr.org or paper letters to Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC 20001.

Noah reads some of this week's letters from All Things Considered listeners.(3:15) Send e-mail to atc@npr.org. Traditional mail to Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Ave Northwest, Washington, DC 20001.

Michele Norris talks with Paul Mockapetris, who has been working on technology that makes e-mail addresses more secure from spammers. Mockapetris is chairman and chief scientist at Nominum, a provider of Internet address software.

Variations of "worms" that attack a critical loophole in Microsoft Windows 2000 forced short-term shutdowns at CNN, ABC and the New York Times on Tuesday. The worms spread not by e-mail, but through the Internet.

Daniel Joseph "DJ" Rodriguez, 40, of Fontana, Calif., was sentenced to 12.5 years. Officer Fanone served on the Metropolitan Police Department Officer for nearly two decades before resigning in 2021.

From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.

Here's where the current notable GOP hopefuls, including Donald Trump, stand on issues of democracy and election integrity.

The U.S. debt has led to plenty of partisan fights and ... charitable gifts. For decades, a government program has been collecting donations from Americans who want to help pay off the national debt.

Retirees have protested in two Chinese cities over fears that the authorities will dip into their personal health savings accounts to cover public budget shortfalls.

Stodgy old insurance companies are working on their social media skills to deal with new kinds of customer complaints. The company accounts on Twitter and elsewhere also help the insurers manage their brands and do quick damage control.

A handful of people trying to establish a "trans and queer haven" in rural Colorado say their neighbors are continually harassing them. Critics say they're overstating that to solicit donations.

Medicare is giving hospitals financial incentives to provide better care. But so far about half of the hospitals that got incentive payments found them canceled out by other quality programs.

Florida legislators this year diverted state money from medical research studies in order to give $30 million to cancer centers, no-strings-attached, says…

Note: Every day this week, we’ll be taking a look at amendments on the Florida ballot. We start with Amendment 1: the measure setting aside public money...

Every year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission urges Americans to use fireworks responsibly. It does this by blowing up a bunch of mannequins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

When RFK Jr. announced he would cut funds from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, he cited "vaccine safety," referring to a 2017 study from Guinea-Bissau. We asked vaccine researchers to assess the study.