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We play an excerpt from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's famous speech, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, 50 years ago today, in which he warned of an "iron curtain" descending across eastern Europe.

Noah and Linda read more listeners' responses to our request for notable quotes in which the speaker refers to him or herself in the third person, ala Bob Dole.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that two U.S. Marines face court martial for refusing to give samples of their DNA. The military is collecting DNA samples from all the services to help identify the remains of casualties. But the marines are concerned that the information might be used for other things, and their privacy may be violated.

SUSAN REMARKS ABOUT THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE THIS WEEK WHICH LISTS ALL THE FAVORITE BABY NAMES AROUND THE COUNTRY.

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TEXAS VOTERS AND VOTERS IN MANY OTHER STATES GO TO THE POLLS ON TUESDAY, AND NPR'S BRIAN NAYLOR REPORTS ON FRIDAY NIGHT'S DEBATE IN DALLAS. BOB DOLE, THE FRONT RUNNER, SKIPPED IT.

Noah speaks with Saud Abu Ramadan, a Palestinian journalist in Gaza, about a 17-year-old youth who was recruited by Islamic extremists to become a suicide bomber. In describing the recruitment process, Abu Ramadan says extremist leaders keep an eye out for especially religious youths and brainwash them into believing that their impoverished lives on earth are failures. He says they then convince these young people that the awards of paradise await them if they become martyrs for the Islamic cause.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says that in the wars of the competitive new global economy, U.S. employees have become the casualties. American workers have become the most expendable resource a business has. But Jenningsa this kind of "quick fix" is no real answer for declining profits, and she wonders what it does to the consumers trust in a company.

NPR's Linda Gradstein has this report from Jerusalem about Israel's Orthodox Jews who take it upon themselves to collect the bodies of those who've lost their lives from terrorist acts in order to give them a proper burial as defined by jewish law.

These women average a $250,00 in salaries each year. They were asked how they made it and what difficulties they face.