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For just a few weeks a year on Alaska's Kenai River, locals are allowed to use dipnet -- homemade nets attached to long metal poles -- to catch enough salmon to last the winter. For $20, anyone can make a net and catch dozens of fish. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports, in the second part of her Morning Edition series on fishing.

One night earlier this summer, an Afghan village came under attack from U.S. gunships as residents celebrated an upcoming wedding. Two months later, the villagers of Kakrak are still waiting for compensation which was promised but never delivered, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on All Things Considered.

Doctors are diagnosing an increasing number of children at younger ages with serious mental disorders. Many of those children are being treated with psychiatric drugs developed for adults. Experts say the trend is worrisome because most of the medications have never been tested for safety or effectiveness in children. NPR's Vicky Que reports.

The Kurds of northern Iraq think of themselves as America's allies in the effort to rebuild the nation and create a new, democratic government. Oppressed under Saddam Hussein, they remain anxious that U.S. officials might shove them aside during reconstruction. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

One of three women on the 25-member Iraqi Governing Council survives an attempt to kill her. Aquila al-Hashimi is in stable condition after being shot outside her Baghdad home Saturday. She was in line to become the new Iraqi representative to the United Nations. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

The SARS outbreak in Asia last spring led to the biggest quarantines seen anywhere in well over half a century. Taiwan alone told more than 150,000 people to say home. Now public health authorities are considering the effectiveness of quarantines as the region braces for a possible resurgence of SARS this fall. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The emergency room at Yarmouk Hospital in Baghdad is desperately short on supplies. There is no intensive care unit, no oxygen, and IV fluid is hard to find. But ER doctors still treat a steady stream of patients with gunshot and knife wounds. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports.

NPR's Joe Shapiro reports on a shelter in Austin, Texas, that places battered women into temporary "transitional" housing while the organization finds more permanent housing for them. They also help the women learn skills needed to find jobs and take care of their children.

The Senate will vote Monday on the Bush administration's request for $87 billion in funds for postwar security and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. But a provision that would have converted some of the aid from grants to loans disappeared this week after political maneuvering on Capitol Hill. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

On Oct. 30, 1938, H.G. Wells' science-fiction story about an invasion from Martians was heard on the Columbia Broadcasting System, adapted into a radio play by film auteur Orson Welles. But many listeners across the country believed that the play was an actual news report.