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Commentator Jesus Mena started working in farm fields when he was 8 years old along with his parents, and he hated it. Now, he is an administrator at Harvard University and he thought that his family was beyond working the fields. But this past summer, his son took a job on a farm.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that United Airlines filed for bankruptcy today. The airline has lost about $4 billion dollars in the last two years and didn't have enough cash to pay off nearly a billion dollars in debt that was due this week. It was business as usual for the flying public, though. The airline has promised to keep flying while it comes up with a plan to reduce costs under the supervision of the bankruptcy court.

Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus that public schools are not doing a good job of meeting their needs. In the third report of a five-part series on educating Latinos, Jessica Jones of member station WUNC reports on the shortage of qualified bilingual education teachers. Browse online resources about the issues, and learn about each of the reports in this series.

CSX Chairman John Snow is reportedly President Bush's choice to replace Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. Bush also reportedly will name former Goldman Sachs co-chairman Stephen Friedman to be the new White House economic adviser. Hear more from NPR's Bob Edwards and Cokie Roberts.

NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Jon Lee Anderson, the author of The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan. Anderson is a "New Yorker" magazine correspondent who wrote about the most revered leader in Afghanistan, known as the "The Lion of Panjshir."

Ken Tucker reviews Original Pirate Material the debut collection by white British rapper Mike Skinner otherwise known as The Streets.

President Bush confirms he will nominate John W. Snow, chairman of the transportation firm CSX Corp., to be the next Treasury secretary. Snow would replace Paul O'Neill, who announced his resignation Friday. NPR News reports.

United Airlines files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing is the largest in the airline industry. United says it's "business as usual" for customers. But some United workers stand to lose thousands of dollars from the company's employee stock ownership plan. Hear NPR's Cheryl Corley and Elaine Korry.

Doctors Quentin Young and Marcia Angell of Physicians for a National Health Care Program (PNHP). They advocate a single-payer health insurance plan, in which the government finances health care, but choice of provider remains mostly private. Young is Senior Attending Physician at Michael Reese Hospital and serves as National Coordinator of PNHP. Angell is head of the Physician Working Group and is a senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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