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Leave it to an imaginative Polish film director to find an innovative way to frame a classic opera. Mariusz Trelinski speaks with host Robert Siegel about how to make Madama Butterfly register with a television-jaded audience.

An independent oversight committee tells Congress that NASA should scale back its plans for a full-scale International Space Station until the space agency can stop cost overruns that have nearly quadupled the price tag.

The diamond industry is facing hard times -- a looming recession, vaults full of gems, and media reports linking the diamond trade to African rebel armies and even Osama bin Laden. The industry is fighting back with ad campaigns touting the gem's priceless emotional value. NPR's Jacki Lyden reports.

Author Jonathan Franzen joins Fresh Air to discuss his critically acclaimed and award-winning novel, The Corrections. It is a saga about two generations of an American family; the parents and their children.

More than bombs are dropping on Afghanistan. Psychological warfare soldiers are dropping leaflets and broadcasting news and music, hoping to frighten the Taliban and foster civilian support. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on the military's war of words.

A new 3-D database offers researchers unprecedented details of the human brain. NPRs Michelle Trudeau visits the laboratory of the human brain atlas project in California.

Poet Alan Dugan burst on the scene 40 years ago, winning the National Book Award for his very first collection of poems. In Nov., 2001, he won a second time. Dugan talks with host Linda Wertheimer about critics, time and what makes a good poem.

Robert Siegel talks with David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars Odyssey, a spacecraft that's scheduled to begin orbiting Mars tomorrow.

Host Bob Edwards talks with comedian Bill Cosby about his new book, Cosbyology: Essays and Observations from the Doctor of Comedy.

Susan Stamberg's annual Thanksgiving tradition of reading her mother-in-law's recipe for cranberry relish on the air nearly came to an end this year. But patriotic spirit kept it alive.