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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.

With tax revenues waning, many public schools are looking for new sources of money. In the first part of "Beyond the Bake Sale," a Morning Edition series, NPR's Emily Harris looks at the debate over exclusive soft drink contracts with schools that have some parents and physicians worried.

The Kurds of northern Iraq think of themselves as America's allies in the effort to rebuild the nation and create a new, democratic government. Oppressed under Saddam Hussein, they remain anxious that U.S. officials might shove them aside during reconstruction. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr begin handing over their weapons to Iraqi police in the Sadr City district of Baghdad. The disarmament is part of an attempt to end weeks of clashes with U.S. troops. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Arab television broadcasts images of two hostages taken in Iraq, one reportedly a U.S. Marine and the other a Pakistani man working with the coalition authority. Militants claim to have captured the Marine after luring him from a base; they have threatened to behead the pair. NPR's Emily Harris reports.