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Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer have a story on a racehorse that couldn't win a race.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on McCamey Texas, a tapped-out oil town that's in the middle of a wealth of wind power. While the developers and investors in the wind projects stand to earn millions, McCamey gave away it's chance to collect major property tax revenues from the wind farms.

The state of California is spending vast amounts of money to buy electricity. It has already shelled out more than 2-billion-dollars for scarce power on the volatile spot market. And now the state is preparing to borrow a record $10 billion to secure a reliable supply of electricity for the long-term. Scott Horsley of member station KPBS reports.

The sporadic fighting that continues in the air above Iraq flared again today as US planes struck anti-aircraft artillery installations and surface-to-air missile sites in northern Iraq. And Pentagon officials today admitted that some of the weapons used in last week's mission landed well off their targets. From the Pentagon, NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports the government of Colombia is trying to negotiate a second demilitarized zone, a place to conduct peace talks with the country's second largest rebel group. The government already has established a peace zone in the south, with the largest insurgency. The new zone would be in the north.

Noah reads some of this week's letters from listeners. (2:30) Send mail to: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.

Commentator Marion Winik recalls the day she locked her baby in her car. She got exactly the right kind of help from a source she wouldn't have expected.

Actor J.P. Manoux has gotten what could be his big break on network television. He'll appear on an upcoming episode of Nash Bridges, or at least a part of him will.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that thousands of colleagues of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt gathered for a brief memorial service today in Charlotte, N.C.

Noah Adams talks with Emmanuel Madan and Thomas McIntosh about their sonic project, the Silophone. The two artists, who call themselves The User, have given an old grain silo in Montreal a new function by rigging it with broadcast lines and microphones. People can call into the Silophone or submit sounds over the Internet. (5:30) See www.silophone.net