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Breslow: NPR's Peter Breslow pays a return visit to Ecuador 25 years after living there and brings back some snapshots.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's former White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest developments in the story of former President Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons.

Leda Hartman examines how a third-grade social studies class in North Carolina is using e-mail to teach geography. Students there have received more than 300,000 e-mails from people on every continent. And each time they receive one from a new country or location, they learn all they can about that place.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Vernon Edenfield, president of the George Washington Fredericksburg Foundation, about the economic considerations that factor into the preservation of historic sites. Edenfield claims if the right balance is struck, conservation and preservation can mean good business for local economies.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from New Delhi on an unusual political fight-- Indian prostitutes want to be counted as workers, instead of beggars, in the country's census.

A welcome early season deluge of rain in California has not ended the drought which persists in other parts of the West as well. The warming climate makes it harder to replenish rivers and reservoirs.

Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. He now faces a criminal complaint alleging he forcibly touched a female staff member.

Last night's Grammy awards were a combination of the unusual and the mundane. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Former President Bill Clinton has asked his brother-in-law to return money he received in connection with pardons Mr. Clinton granted to two convicted felons at the end of his term. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Hugh was given about 200-thousand-dollars for successfully lobbying for the pardons. Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson about it.

Singer and musician David Johansen was the lead singer for the 70s pre-punk punk rock band New York Dolls. Later he performed as Buster Poindexter, a pompadour tuxedo wearing lounge lizard swing bandleader of the band Banshees in Blue. Now he has a new roots-music band and a new album of straight blues, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths. (Chesky Re