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NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that Maryland plans to become the first state to voluntarily stop tobacco farming. The government program would pay farmers for choosing to stop growing tobacco.

Those on both sides of the abortion debate are saying that whoever wins November's presidential race can have an impact on the availability of RU 486, the abortion drug. But as Julie Rovner reports, there are limits to the influence any president can have on the availability of this drug.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports on the public transit strike in Los Angeles. The shut down of bus and rail service has turned the city's already difficult commutes into a real mess.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports that yesterday European Union transport ministers gathered at a meeting in Luxembourg to discuss the soaring oil prices. The high price of fuel, have unleashed a wave of protests that severely disrupted many of their countries.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the elections in Yugoslavia. No official results have yet been released, but opposition says that their leader Vojislav Kostunica is ahead. This is in sharp contrast to government's statements that President Slobodan Milosevic is winning.

Internet music-sharing service Napster has been back in court. NPR's John McChesney reports on the company's fight against a district court injunction that the company says could shut down the service before the trial even starts.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports from the closing of the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. After two weeks of spectacle, fierce competition, and scandal, the closing ceremonies end on an appropriately grand note.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the abortion debate in Mexico. Abortion laws have recently been relaxed in the country, but some powerful religious conservatives are threatening to use their influence in an effort to ban abortions entirely.

In the Philippines, a massive military offensive continues against the Muslim separatist faction, known as the Abu Sayaf. In recent months, the Abu Sayaf has been holding foreigners as well as Filipinos hostage, trading them only for millions of dollars in ransom. Orlando Guzman reports.

The World Bank/IMF annual summit opens in Prague this Tuesday in an atmosphere of dissent and discord, as Bank officials wrestle with the future direction of the institution. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Prague.