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Supporters and opponents of President Bush's proposals for private Social Security accounts are running campaign-style ads -- some of which include misleading claims.

Back in the seventeenth century, explorers told of seas teeming with giant marine creatures. A group of researchers concluded that these were an accurate account of life in the oceans at the time. As John Nielsen reports, these fabulous aquatic ecosystems collapsed as humans started to hunt these creatures.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports Brazilian soccer may be caught up in a game of kickbacks and money laundering. Allegedly players are being bought and sold with money deposited into as many as thirty different bank accounts. The Brazilian congress is holding hearings to settle the allegations of corruption.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on Mexico's booming underground economy, which now accounts for up to half of all sales in certain sectors. The government and industry leaders want Mexico's street vendors to begin paying taxes. Not surprisingly, the vendors are resisting.

NASA investigators are continuing to comb through telemetry data and internal records, examine debris and evaluate other sources of information includic home videos and eyewitess accounts. Meanwhile the remains of the astronauts arrive at Dover Air Force Base. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

NPR's Lynn Neary talks with Wendell Primus, Director of Income Security at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, about the president's proposal for $3,000 un-employment accounts.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff faces taxpayers who want accountability for the tens of billions of dollars spent on homeland security -- and whether the measures being taken are making the country safer.

Personal accounts and reflections of individuals affected by the Iraq war. This diary entry is from Rachel O'Rourke and Kathy Erdolf, both war demonstrators, in Portland, Ore.

U.S. officials now believe Iran was responsible for a series of cyberattacks on American banks in September and on major energy firms in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks about the escalating tactics of cyberwarfare.

Scott Simon talks with Eva Doyle, historian and longtime columnist in Buffalo, N.Y., about how her community is processing last week's racist attack.