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  • Police take the man who shot Pope John Paul II back into custody after an appeals court ordered him to return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist and for other crimes in Turkey.
  • In the midst of the controversy over Italian antiquities, the Getty is reopening its famous Villa this month after a multimillion-dollar renovation. The Villa houses some of the artifacts Italy wants back. Commentator Tyler Green says it's unlikely visitors will care if some of its art is contested.
  • A trial is under way in Rome against the Getty Museum's former curator, Marion True, who is charged with knowing that the museum acquired antiquities looted from Italy. The government also has made a proposal to the Metropolitan Museum for the return of certain illegally acquired pieces in return for loans of work of equal value.
  • Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, discusses what kind of information search engines keep about users' searches.
  • Jimmie Dale Gilmore's new album — his seventh — is called Come on Back and it's a memorial to his late father. He died of ALS in 2000. The album includes version of his dad's favorite songs like Pick Me Up on Your Way Down and Walkin' The Floor Over You. Gilmore was born, raised and lives in Texas. He has been recording solo albums since 1988, when he released Fair and Square.
  • Some artists from New Orleans say Hurricane Katrina will mark a turning point in their careers, and not only because it ruined some of their work. They say the altered visual and cultural landscape of the city will affect the art they have yet to make. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.
  • Organic foods are mainstream... an established and fast-growing sector of the food business. But synthetic substances are creeping into food that is branded "organic," and the issue has split growers.
  • The new film Walk the Line is based on the life of legendary musician Johnny Cash. We begin a two-day look at the life of the much-celebrated "Man in Black" with an interview with Cash himself. This interview originally aired on Nov. 4, 1997.
  • That holiday tree in your living room seems fresh, but it was probably plucked from the farm earlier this month. Tom Banse has an insider's look at the industrial operation to bring trees to market.
  • Southern Sudan is at peace for the first time in more than two decades. During Sudan's bloody, 21-year civil war, a group of American women working with war victims promised to build a girl's school in Akon, a remote village in Southern Sudan. Now, they're fighting to deliver on that promise. NPR's Charlayne Hunter-Gault returned to Akon with the women from Boston and has the second part of their story.
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