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NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that while the average weekday in Los Angeles brings traffic jams throughout the city and region, the air pollution is at its worst during the weekend. Scientists say the reasons for this are as hazy as the LA skyline.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports Brazilian soccer may be caught up in a game of kickbacks and money laundering. Allegedly players are being bought and sold with money deposited into as many as thirty different bank accounts. The Brazilian congress is holding hearings to settle the allegations of corruption.

Robert talks with Thomas Penny, a reporter with London's Daily Telegraph, about how difficult it would be these days to give someone the twelve items from the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Penny wrote an article on the subject for today's edition of the Daily Telegraph.

Prisoners at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York train guide dogs for the blind. The program has been in place since 1998. NPR's Margot Adler reports. (9:00)Find out more at: www.puppiesbehindbars.com.

In part 1, NPR's Brenda Wilson reports on the hard consequences the AIDS epidemic is wreaking in the African nation of Zambia, where poverty and a rising death rate has left the country with some 600 thousand orphans.

NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports a little patch of South Central Los Angeles has been transformed from a concrete jungle into a nature retreat.

A blizzard is whipping through the upper Midwest. The winter storm is expected to dump more than a foot of snow in several states. Many schools closed and airlines juggled schedules. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on the strongest storm to hit that city in nearly two years.

Researchers in New Hampshire are hoping to use laser technology to improve weather forecasting. Doug MacPherson reports that the equipment now being tested on Mount Washington could allow forecasters to provide much more notice about impending severe weather conditions.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem, where Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak resigned over the weekend. Contenders for his position include former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , but a technicality may keep him from running.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the variety of ways parents are saving for their children's college educations. While many parents are investing in mutual funds and Roth IRAs, there's also the new 529 (five twenty-nine) plan, a state-sponsored tax-deferred program.