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- Reporter Alex Van Oss reports that the people of Finland consider Santa Claus one of their own...and have a workshop near the Arctic Circle to prove it. Van Oss visits the Finnish Embassy Christmas party where diplomats give their government's official policy on the origins of Santa.

Robert talks with Maryam Elahi, the program officer for the Middle East, North Africa and Europe for Amnesty International. They discuss the report released this week about the torture of prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, and her visits to that region to check of reports of human rights abuses.

In the first of two reports on diabetes, NPR's Richard Knox reports a new study from Denmark shows people with diabetes can turn their health around with intensive one-on-one counseling about what they eat and how much they exercise.

Host Liane Hansen hosts a roundtable discussion with reporters from around the country, including Kate Nelson, columnist and editorial board member of The Albuquerque Tribune; Pat Yack, editor of The Florida Times-Union; and Jim Camden, senior political reporter with the Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on problems that have surfaced in the big U.S. program designed to fight trafficking in Colombia. Neither the Colombian government nor other countries have come up with their share of the funding. A Congressional report highlights mismanagement in implementation of the program, known as Plan Colombia.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on two studies from the Rand Corporation think tank that offer starkly different views of the widely publicized improvements of Texas students on standardized tests. The dueling reports have stirred up the debate over education in the presidential campaign.

A draft report by the United Nations sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that there is strong evidence that humans have contributed to global warming. The panel also predicted that the earth is likely to get hotter than previously predicted. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

NPR's Julia McCarthy reports a new report that blames Britain's government for misleading the public to think they were safe from mad cow disease. Nearly 80 people have died from the outbreak.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on a new report from a U.N. panel on global climate change. It says that extreme weather events, like huge snowstorms and floods, are becoming more frequent, and may be signs of the slow process of global warming.

The Marine's V22 Osprey has come under increasing scrutiny after a series of deadly crashes and a highly critical GAO report. The aircraft may face a funding cutoff after a review of Defense Department programs ordered by President Bush. Russell Lewis reports from member station KPBS.