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Up to now, a wireless connection to the Internet has usually meant using a cell phone to log on. NPR's John McChesney reports that now there is another wireless technology aimed at laptop computers.

Commentator Meredith Small came face-to-face with the downside of western industrialization when the connection between her home and her sewer broke.

Commentator Arti Srivastava believes many mothers in the U.S. try to train their children to be too independent too early.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russia's state-dominated gas monopoly is asserting control over the country's only nationwide independent television network. The monopoly, Gazprom, replaced NTV's board of directors today in a move the television journalists call a threat to press freedom.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade where Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said today his government is not making plans to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague. At a news conference, Kostunica said Milosevic must stand trial at home.

NPR's Peter Overby reports that the campaign finance bill passed last night by the Senate virtually ignores President Bush's suggested set of principles for campaign finance reform. Now the White House is mulling what to do about the bill.

Prices plunged on Wall Street again today. Now that the stock market is struggling, commentator Andrei Codrescu says the long bull market didn't amount to much more than greed. He thinks the pioneering spirit of the Internet was long ago swallowed up by big corporations.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports that despite the country's increasing racial diversity, a new report shows segregation remains common in metropolitan areas. The report, using data from the 2000 Census, comes from the State University of New York in Albany.

Joshua Levs reports a case involving alleged child abuse at church has created a stir in Atlanta. The House of Prayer disciplines its young parishioners with corporal punishment. Georgia officials believe the church and many of its parents are abusing the children with beatings and whippings. The state has put 41 children into temporary foster care.

Robert Siegel talks to Margo Wallstrom, the European Commission's top environmental official, about her visit to Washington today, and her discussion with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Wallstrom conveyed strong European concerns about the decision by the Bush administration not to ratify the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions.