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NPR's Larry Abramson reports that a recent FBI bust of a bookie has focused attention on another weapon in law enforcement's high-tech arsenal. Agents put a keystroke monitor on a suspect's computer and were able to recreate every letter typed into it for months. The idea was to get a password he used to encrypt data.

Beijing is prosecuting some of China's high and mighty in a huge corruption scandal, based in Xiamen. Already there have been death sentences handed down in number of cases, and more are expected. NPR's Rob Gifford reports on the case of a Chinese man, arrested in Vancouver and held in a Canadian jail on immigration charges. Political leaders in Beijing say he is the most prolific smuggler in modern Chinese history. They have requested that he be extradited to China. Canada is worried about the case, because the man could be executed if returned to China. But Chinese officials are concerned because the suspect, who's name is Lai Changxing, has tales to tell about corruption at the highest levels of government.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that Exxon Mobil Corporation has been ordered to pay the state of Alabama nearly 3-and-a-half billion dollars in punitive damages. An Alabama circuit court jury found the company had deliberately underpaid on its natural gas leases off the Alabama coast.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports a number of charities are looking to the world wide web to help raising funds. But it's hardly a gold mine, and groups hoping for e-donations are finding it will take some time before it will make up a sizable part of their income.

Commentator Ev Ehrlich deconstructs the Christmas song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports Leslie Rudd owner of Dean & Deluca, is trying to bring the success of the high-tech business world to his home-state of Kansas. Rudd has started a fund that provides investment capital to students from Kansas Universities.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the decreasing level of worker loyalty in companies across the U.S.

Commentator Meghan Daum gives us her tips on how to prepare the perfect Turkey.

Commentator Agate Nesaule remembers how after losing home and family to two wars, her Latvian family had held on to one cherished Christmas tradition.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Washington Post writer Henry Allen about his new book, What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century. It's a series of impressionistic vignettes of life in the 1900's, decade by decade. (7:18) What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century is published by Pantheon Books; ISBN: 0375420630.