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This year, the NBA welcomed several elite prospects who skipped college to play for a new minor league team. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with G League President Shareef Abdur-Rahim about the team, Ignite.

A Kentucky man who was the first rioter to enter the U.S. Capitol during a mob's attack on the building was sentenced on Tuesday to more than four years in prison.

The president told a crowd at an auto plant that young people could make a lot more money in skilled manufacturing than with an art history degree. Ann Collins Johns was offended and emailed Obama.

The outpouring of responses we received — in comments and over email and Twitter — to Pie Week speaks to just how often making and eating pie brings us together.

NPR's David Molpus talks with members of the 24th Marine Expeditionary. He hears how they're preparing themselves for the possibility of war with Iraq, how spouses at home are explaining their absence to toddlers, and how one couple has made up a personal code for private e-mail messages.

Commentator David Shenk says a major study released today from the University of California in Berkeley aims for the impossible: to quantify how much information the world produces each year. That includes everything in a year's worth of e-mails, phone calls, radio and television broadcasts, Websites, office documents, newspapers, memos, etc. The number is so big that U.C. is coming close to the extreme end of terms that have been invented to measure such volume. (3:00) See the study at http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/

Hal Cannon, from the Western Folklife Center, profiles composer Phillip Bimstein, whose works draw on the culture and landscape of southern Utah. His most recent composition incorporates the voice and harmonica playing of a legendary local figure, Larkin Gifford, who died in 1998. (Bimstein's website is http://www.bimstein.com. For information on how to obtain Bimstein's recordings, e-mail the composer at songdog@infowest.com.)

As U.S. forces assembled in the Persian Gulf region, the Pentagon conducted one of the biggest information wars in its history. Thousands of leaflets were dropped over Iraq. At Fort Bragg, N.C., engineers with the Psychological Operations Unit -- known as Psy Ops -- produced radio broadcasts that mimicked Iraqi stations. Key Iraqi officials have received E-mails and cell phone calls crafted by Psy Ops officers. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listener e-mails, which include comments on Robert Siegel's story on The Lone Ranger. Some listeners enjoyed hearing the familiar William Tell Overture, while others were curious about the origins of the name Tonto. We also got mail about UFO sightings in Texas — from skeptics, believers and scientists.

Noah talks with Fred Davis, computer consultant and author of "Windows '95 Bible", about a federal court ruling that will allow America on Line to block junk e-mail from being sent to its subscribers. Many AOL customers complained about getting ads in their electronic mailboxes. In the case of on-line junk mail you are essentially paying for it, whereas junk mail through the postal system is free.