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NPR's Eric Weiner reports that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is in Washington, D.C., today, meeting with Bush administration officials. He meets with the president tomorrow.

NPR's Margot Adler begins Morning Edition's four-part series on literacy by trying to define it. Educators struggle about whether to focus on fact-based knowledge or on critical thinking skills in the classroom.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea. Tomorrow marks two months in office for President Bush, and he's made his mark on both U.S. policy and the job of president itself.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the success of Brazil's AIDS program. Alone among developing nations, Brazil has provided AIDS drugs to nearly all who need them. That's cut the death rate from AIDS in half. The success is due to the country's aggressive policies on allowing generic copies of expensive brand name drugs. The international pharmaceutical industry has tolerated the situation until recently. Now the country faces a major trade dispute over its policy on AIDS drugs.

Noah Adams talks with Ralph Gardner Jr., who is covering the Puffy Combs trial for the New York Observer about closing arguments in the Puffy Combs trial. Yesterday, the defense made their closing arguments, and today was the prosecution's turn. Gardner says today prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos started his summation of the state's case by playing recordings of emergency telephone calls after 3 people were wounded by gunfire on Dec. 27, 1999.

A portrait of seediness and forgetfulness in the biggest little city in the world. Andrei Codrescu returns to the town where five years ago he was snowed in. Codrescu claims mountain lions came down to the town back then, but finds people don't remember that detail.

Reaction from around the country to the dips in the stock market.

Noah Adams talks with Chris Desimio, a financial consultant and stock broker in Cincinnati, Ohio, about the technology companies that are still doing well despite the downturn of the stock market. He also talks about the companies which should not have gone down in value, but did, because of the psychology of the market right now.

Ever wonder why we call a prolonged downturn in the market a "Bear Market" and an extended rise a "Bull Market?" Virginia Morris, co-author of the Wall Street Journal Guide to Money and Investing, explains where these terms come from.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports on two members of the new Israeli government who are known for their hard-line views. One has advocated expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza while the other has suggested Israel could attack Tehran or the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.