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A six-part NPR News series on changing attitudes toward immigration in the wake of Sept. 11 continues. On Morning Edition, Eric Westervelt reports on the relationship between the INS and local police.

With his acoustic guitar and a batch of witty and insightful songs, Dan Bern is rapidly becoming the voice of a new generation of folk music. The singer/songwriter — hailed by some critics as the next Bob Dylan — talks about his latest album, titled New American Language. The CD is available on Messenger Records.

Singer-songwriter Sally Taylor talks about her song "Victim." Sally Taylor has followed the profession of her parents, James Taylor and Carly Simon, and she's now released her third CD. It's called Shotgun.

This week marks 100 years since Guglielmo Marconi's first trans-Atlantic broadcast from Newfoundland to Cornwall, England. Lisa joins NPR's Joe Palca for a little experiment to remember the first dit-dit-dit's of Morse Code sent as electro-magnetic waves crossed the ocean.

Former USS California radioman Arthur "Bud" Montagne, father of NPR's Renee Montagne, is among the Pearl Harbor veterans gathered in Honolulu for the 60th anniversary of the surprise attack.

Last year, Liz Shuler became the first ever woman elected president of the country's largest labor union. She joins us to talk about where the labor movement is headed.

Genetically modified crops have roared into North American fields, with farmers increasingly turning to soybeans, cotton and corn engineered to resist pests and chemicals. But the technology has been met with a mounting wave of protest. On Morning Edition, a talk with NPR's Dan Charles about this saga of scientific breakthrough, intrigue and competition. (Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food, is published by Perseus Books; ISBN: 0738202916.)

Linda Wertheimer takes us on a career profile of the late Robert Trout, veteran broadcaster and All Things Considered commentator. We learn about Trout's beginnings at a small Northern Virginia radio station as a janitor/announcer, and follow his career through his rise to covering presidential events and World War II, anchoring the fledgling CBS News broadcasts. His on-air calm steered CBS through the war, and his reassuring presence brought America some of the biggest stories of the day. Fortunately, most of what he did survives in recordings. This profile is an excerpt from a forthcoming NPR two-hour special due out early next year.

Today marks the last installment -- for now, anyway -- of the National Story Project with writer Paul Auster and NPR's Jacki Lyden. But eventhough the National Story Project is on hiatus from broadcast we welcome your story submissions on-line. You can email those to nationalstoryproject@npr.org.

George Harrison was "the quiet Beatle." But his soulful world view and unique guitar style helped give the group its distinctive sound. Harrison died at 58 after a long battle with cancer. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Palin of Monty Python's Flying Circus, who was a friend of Harrison.