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The U.S. government has spent billions of dollars cleaning up highly toxic plutonium waste in Hanford, Wash., where much of the fuel for the nation's nuclear weapons was produced. Over budget and behind schedule, the project has ground to a halt. Some worry the government will give up on cleaning up the site completely.

In the second of a series of conversations on the topic, Scott Simon talks with James Zogby, president of the Arab-American Institute, about finding a balance between civil liberties and security in the use of racial profiling.

President Bush travels to Aurora, Ill., to sign the $286.4 billion transportation bill. The bill is two years overdue and includes about 6,000 pet projects for lawmakers' home districts.

A Russian mini-submarine trapped for three days 620 feet under the Pacific Ocean has surfaced; all seven crew members are alive and in good condition. They were freed after an unmanned British craft cut the undersea cable that had snarled the submarine.

In the summer of 1965, Bruce Miroff joined hundreds of white northern college students in a voter-registration campaign called SCOPE. This summer, a reunion was held. Nick Miroff sends an audio montage of the group's recollections.

South Korean scientists announced Wednesday they have created the first cloned dog. Snuppy, an Afghan hound, was born in April. The cloning technique used is not efficient. It took nearly 2,000 eggs to make some 1,000 embryos -- all of which produced just one healthy puppy.

Long Branch, N.J., plans to condemn dozens of modest bungalows along the shore so a developer can put up condos. The mayor think this would be great for tax revenue. Longtime residents -- and some lawmakers -- wonder about the limits of "public interest."

NASA officials say the agency's engineers have found no easy answers to the problem of falling foam during the liftoff of space shuttles -- and a scheduled September launch will likely be delayed. Two NASA engineering teams reported on the problem Thursday.

Each year, students at Dartmouth Medical School honor the people who donated their bodies to science for use as cadavers... and learn more about the lives those donors led. Susan Keese of Vermont Public Radio attended this year's ceremony.

The House is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation that would loosen restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. President Bush says he'll veto the bill. The bill's supporters say some embryos should be donated for research. But opponents, who believe life begins at conception, are offended by the idea.