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A suicide attacker explodes a car bomb at a U.S. checkpoint leading to the U.S. headquarters in Baghdad, killing at least one U.S. soldier and six Iraqi civilians and injuring some two dozen others. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

President George Bush appears on Arabic-language television Wednesday to condemn the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American troops. In the wake of Bush's question-and-answer session, reaction from Iraqi citizens appeared to be one of general dissatisfaction. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea, NPR's Robert Siegel and Daoud Kuttab, director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University.

NPR's Michele Norris talks with former U.S. marshals Don Forsht and Al Butler, who were part of a special team recruited to carry out school desegregation orders in the 1950s and '60s. Their work took them to all the southern hotspots during the campaign of massive resistance.

Under an emerging plan to end the siege of Fallujah, U.S. Marines pull back from some positions, to be replaced by a newly formed Iraqi security force commanded by one of Saddam Hussein's former generals. Fighting continues in parts of Fallujah, and two Marines were killed in a bombing outside the town. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

On Monday, just before the leak of the draft opinion on abortion, Amazon told workers it would pay travel costs for people in places where abortion clinics are far away.

The demand for oil increases each year, but the supply is not inexhaustible. Experts predict that within 30 years our oil energy sources will be depleted. In his book, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, Roberts looks at the implications for the world in terms of the economy, politics and the environment, and what alternatives exist for oil. Roberts writes about the energy industry for Harper's magazine and for other national publications.

Fourteen countries in Africa get at least half their wheat from Russia or Ukraine.

Services for older LGBTQ adults are few and far between.

Hollywood's new romantic comedy Laws of Attraction stars Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan as dueling divorce lawyers who fall in love. NPR's film reviewer Bob Mondello says the film isn't nearly as funny as its premise.

The Food and Drug Administration moves to end the sale of a popular steroid-like performance supplement often used in sports. Known as "andro," the chemical androstenedione is a steroid precursor -- the body converts it into testosterone and, to an extent, estrogen. NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports.