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NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the Afghan refugee crisis. Even though the border is technically closed, Afghan refugees are streaming into Pakistan, fleeing drought, war and winter. Aid agencies are finding it difficult to cope.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Brigadier General James Cross (Retired), who remembers his years as the Chief Pilot of Air Force One during the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson. General Cross also served as Military Assistant to LBJ.

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.

Host Bob Edwards talks live to NPR's Cokie Roberts about the Senate confirmation hearings this week on John Ashcroft, President-Elect Bush's nominee for Attorney General. The hearings are expected to be contentious.

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.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the Bush nominee for Secretary of Interior. Gale Norton is a staunch supporter of state's rights over federal regulation and an advocate of so-called free market environmentalism, who's adherents believe the government should provide financial compensation to landowners for whom environmental laws restrict the use of their land in any way.

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.

Host Bob Edwards talk with Cultural Geographer Derek Alderman about how Martin Luther King, Jr. has been memorialized in more than 500 cities and towns across the United States. Professor Alderman of East Carolina University says the issue of whether to have a street named after King is rarely controversial. More divisive questions include what kind of street it should be, and where the street should be located.

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.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Rich Jones of the National Conference of State Legislatures about what might be accomplished and what legislative items might be left behind in the evenly divided U.S. Senate. Jones also discusses state houses around the country which are also evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.