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Chunks of concrete from the Berlin Wall are sold as memorabilia. Germany's parliament recently gave one chunk as a gift to the United Nations. But the artist who painted it says he deserves to be compensated for his artwork. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

German cyclist Jan Ullrich has finished second to Lance Armstrong three times in the Tour de France. He's trailing Armstrong again this year. No one questions Ullrich's immense talent, only his motivation. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

On Tuesday morning, America's population is predicted to hit 300 million. Who are we? Increasingly we are: a single mom; a centenarian; an immigrant from Mexico; an Asian business owner; a baby boomer; someone named Jacob or Emily.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on a campaign against the Americanization of Christmas celebrations in Germany. German children have come to expect a Christmas Eve visit from a gift-bearing character called Christmasman. He looks and acts a lot like Santa. Some Germans, though, are promoting a more traditional gift-giver, St. Nicholas, who helped the poor.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell. He says he believes in less regulation and more free market competition in the telecommunications industry. He also says he is not concerned about rising cable TV prices and programming that might be bad for children to watch. He says people can choose not to buy, and not to watch.

Even as family farms lose ground to corporate agriculture, city folks feel an emotional pull to farming. But as enthusiastic as they are, they don't know how to grow crops or raise livestock. NPR's Emily Harris visits a program at the University of Maryland that aims to instruct beginning farmers--those who hope to make some money at it, and those who just want to live the lifestyle.

NPR's Emily Harris visited a boot camp for business people interested in new high-tech ventures. With the economy cooling and the bloom off the high-tech rose, these entrepreneurs are proving more cautious than a few years ago. They say this crash course teaches them the business know-how needed to make their dot-com a success.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on a software development company, Disappearing Inc., that's producing a program to create self-destructing e-mail messages. The life-span of the e-mail can be set by the user, and their automatic deletion can help to reduce the huge archives of e-mail that most companies amass.

Iraq's Shiite population seeks new political power after years of oppression. There are more Shia living in Iraq than Sunnis or Kurds. But there are fissures between Islamic and secular Shia, and it is unclear whether cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will participate in the elections. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

A recent survey asked Iraqis a traditional polling question: Is the country moving in the right direction or on the wrong track? Forty-five percent said "wrong track," a jump of almost 15 percent since midsummer. NPR's Emily Harris reports.