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The Secretary of the Army has promised a thorough investigation of all Army bases for any evidence of sexual harassment and abuse. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports on the investigation, which follows the filing of charges against four trainers and a captain at an Army base in northern Maryland. They are accused of offenses ranging from rape to writing improper love letters to trainees.

Researchers in England say a tiny brain structure called the amygdala is crucial for the perception of fear. The researchers showed subject pictures of people with various emotional expressions. When the expression was fearful...a brain scanning device showed that the amygdala was particularly activated. NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Federal Aviation Administration today announced the awarding of a major contract as part of the agency's efforts to modernize its antiquated air traffic control system. The contract, worth close to $1 billion, will begin to replace outdated air traffic control computers at airports around the country.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports the US is facing the consequences of failing to pay its dues to the United Nations... and cutting its voluntary funding of UN programs. UN and U-S officials say Scandinavian countries may challenge the US for leadership of the huge UN development program... a powerful position that influences foreign aid policy... and UN reform efforts.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on efforts to create vast new libraries on-line. While more and more information is being made available through computer networks, it's a surprisingly difficult and slow process to convert large amounts of written material into a form that can be easily accessed via computer.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that the State Department has issued a new warning to Iraq about its air defense systems within the Allied-patroled no-fly zones over Iraq, but military action seems increasingly unlikely despite the week's buildup of retaliatory forces around the Persian Gulf.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that Kurdish leader Mahmoud Barzani's alliance with Baghdad one week, followed by reconciliation talks with American officials the next week, can be explained by a long history among Kurds of pitting one regional power against another in their aborted effort to carve out their own Kurdish nation from parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran.

With congressional races across the country tightening, more and more candidates are turning to negative advertising. Polls suggest that such ads are riskier than in the past, but candidates have just 19 days left to engage voters and apparently feel the ads carry a greater urgency. NPR's Steve Inskeep, who has been tracking political ads for us this fall, reports.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports on the varying perceptions of the impact of the last year's rally in Washington. It drew hundreds of thousands of African-American men to the Washington mall to atone for wrongs and assume personal responsibility for their lives, families and communities. But it's hard to read the signs of the march's political and economic results.

The BBC's Martin Dawes reports from Bukavu, Zaire, on recent fighting that threatens to touch off another humanitarian crisis in central Africa. More than two hundred thousand Hutu refugees have fled their camps in eastern Zaire as the Zairean army battles Zairean Tutsi rebels. The United Nations has evacuated aid workers from the area, and is appealing for an end to the clashes.