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NPR's Jackie Northam reports on the settlement that stopped Ford and Firestone from facing a Texas woman in court. She was paralyzed when the tire tread on an SUV separated, one of many accidents that lead to the recall of millions of tires. Her lawyers say the settlement involves a large amount of money and a promise to tell the public more about the problem.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Lucy Kaylin, author of For the Love of God: The Faith and Future of the American Nun. Kaylin interviews a wide range of women who live as nuns and chronicles their shift from cloistered to active communities within society. Although nuns are a mixed lot who work in most corners of the world, their numbers, in this country at least, are diminishing.

NPR's Jack Speer reports that several major technology companies are proposing new high tech systems for voting.

NPR's Rob Gifford tells us about an former American prisoner of war who after being taken captive during the Korean war, remained in Asia even after he was freed. Now fifty years later he still lives in China.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports on the Afghan refugee crisis. Even though the border is technically closed, Afghan refugees are streaming into Pakistan, fleeing drought, war and winter. Aid agencies are finding it difficult to cope.

In Atlanta today, Martin Luther King Jr.'s family is marking the King holiday with a new push to change Georgia's state flag. Opponents have long argued the flag's Confederate battle emblem is racist. NPR's Kathy Lohr reports.

Film critic Kenneth Turan reviews Before Night Falls.

A massive earthquake hit El Salvador Saturday. More than 400 people are dead. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from El Salvador.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Brigadier General James Cross (Retired), who remembers his years as the Chief Pilot of Air Force One during the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson. General Cross also served as Military Assistant to LBJ.

Commentator Baxter Black says he wonders where Ford Motor is going with the naming of their new line of cars. He has a few ideas of his own.