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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.

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.

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.

Among some planners at the Pentagon and the White House, the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan is seen as a potential long-term ally, but analysts say the Alliances record in power is marred with corruption and brutality. NPRs David Molpus reports.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on a meteor shower that's anticipated early tomorrow morning. Although predictions have been notoriously unreliable, Sunday's shower could be the most spectacular in over 30 years.

Scott talks to writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks about his new book, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. Dr. Sacks looks back on his childhood in London, as part of an enormous clan of physicians, chemists and tinkerers of all sorts.

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

Listeners were asked to write about how they're coping in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In their letters, many from schoolchildren, they spoke of love of country, worries about the economy and fear of further terrorism.

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.

The Board of Supervisors approved a memorandum of understanding with the courts and authorized the probation department to receive state funds.