May 23rd, 2006 · Numerous reports allege that the National Security Agency may have been collecting telephone traffic information on millions of Americans. What could the NSA possibly hope to learn from such a mountain of data? As NPR's Larry Abramson reports, experts in data-mining are aiming their increasingly sensitive tools at just this kind of complex information, in the hopes of predicting when the risk of terrorist threats is the highest.
May 17th, 2006 · When most people are headed to the beach, radio producer Scott Carrier heads for the ski slopes near his home in Utah. Carrier explains the combination of freezing and thawing in the late spring gives the mountain snow pack a special quality that makes for a unique skiing experience.
May 15th, 2006 · A visit to an isolated, poverty-stricken village in China's mountainous Northwest illustrates how far some rural areas lag behind the country's cities -- and the challenges Beijing faces in improving life for Chinese farmers.
May 13th, 2006 · In the small rural community of Westcliffe, Colo., the local chapter of Future Farmers of America raises money with an annual dinner featuring a ranching specialty: Rocky Mountain oysters. As Shanna Lewis of member station KRCC reports, it's not a treat for the squeamish.
May 7th, 2006 · Turkey and Iran have recently put more troops on their borders with northern Iraq, where Kurdish separatists maintain mountain bases. It's a troubling new development in an embattled region.
Apr 25th, 2006 · High in the mountains of Tibet, a life-and-death struggle has been raging nearly unnoticed for decades. It involves roving groups of poachers, a small band of volunteers, and antelope that once numbered in the millions. The story inspired a film, Kekexili.
Apr 24th, 2006 · A father and son facing terrorism-related charges in the small California mountain town of Lodi await a verdict in their long trial. Umer and Hamid Hayat are part of a large Muslim community in that town, and some Lodi residents worry that the FBI was too eager to convict them.
Apr 19th, 2006 · Millions of people enter the United States by avoiding inhabited areas, crossing fragile desert and mountain ecosystems. Often, they burn wood, leave trash and create trails. And pursuing them, the Border Patrol chews up the landscape with motorcycles, ATVs and SUVs.