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NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the expected rise in natural gas prices nationwide this winter. In one New Jersey town, residents could be paying 16% more to heat their homes. Industry experts say seasons of low gas prices are to blame: natural gas producers cut back on production because it was harder to make money. But now there's an increased demand for the resource. (

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on a request by makers of the ulcer-relief drug Misoprostal for doctors not to proscribe their drug to pregnant women. Because the contraction-inducing medication is necessary for effective the use of RU-486, this may render the FDA's recent approval of the drug moot.

One week after riots forced Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevich from power, his supporters in the Serbian government are making life difficult for his replacement, Vojislav Kostunica. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the increased air traffic into Baghdad. U.N. sanctions have kept all but humanitarian relief flights away from Iraq for over a decade. But now more countries are willing to bypass the U.N.'s approval. The U.S. is worried that more flights into Iraq will increase the chances for a weapons build-up. (

(Update) Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about the attack against a United States Naval ship. A small boat rammed the destroyer USS Cole while it was in port in Yemen.

AIDS researcher Timothy Wright and his brother, criminologist Richard Wright. In 1995, Timothy Wright was in Bolivia conducting AIDS related research. Then during Mardi Gras festivities, Wright was assaulted, robbed, and suffered a severe brain injury. In the years since, his brother, Richard helped Timothy in his recovery. We talk to both brothers about Timothy's injury and dramatic recovery. The story of Timothy's recuperation is chronicled in a book written by Helene Wright, TIMOTHY AND Richard's mother. It's called Someone Stole Yesterday (Providence House Publishers). Also, Timothy and Richard Wright have written on AIDS and Bolivia.

Nancy Marshall reports a dating service in Philadelphia may be able to help singles who don't have a lot of time to spend looking for a soul mate. The company's called Nanodate, and it specializes in arranging meetings where singles have an 8 minute conversation before they move on to another perspective mate. (6:26

(Update) Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about the violence in the Middle East.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Harry Link about the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, announced this morning. Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese author to win the award. Gao's has been living France since 1987 after one of his work "The Other Shore" was banned in China. He is a novelist, dramatist, and translator.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Ted Clark about Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's announcement yesterday that she will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang late next month. She will be the highest ranking US official ever to visit the communist nation.