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The Bush administration is reluctant to put a price on a war in Iraq, but estimates have soared -- some put the cost at $100 billion. Meanwhile, military buildup in the Persian Gulf already adds to the nation's defense expense. Hear reports from NPR's Jennifer Ludden and NPR's Scott Horsley.

Transplant surgeons and organ recipients will address black churches around the nation Sunday as they seek to raise awareness about the need for organ donation within the African-American community. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and Dr. Robert Higgins.

U.N. weapons inspectors, foreign diplomats and journalists leave Baghdad in anticipation of possible war. In Kuwait, about 235,000 U.S. troops and 45,000 British troops move into position and prepare for a possible invasion of Iraq. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and NPR's Jennifer Ludden.

Some supporters of Nader's 2000 run for president as a Green Party candidate have urged the consumer advocate not to run this year. Political correspondent NPR's Mara Liasson discusses Nader's move with two Democratic governors: Michigan's Jennifer Granholm and New Mexico's Bill Richardson.

After being introduced at the age of 12 to a set of religious rules, Jennifer Traig developed a hyper-religious form of obsessive-compulsive disorder known as "scrupulosity." She chronicles her disorder in the memoir Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood.

In the Darfur region of Sudan, thousands of people have died and a million have been driven from their homes as result of what many are calling ethnic cleansing or even genocide. Hear NPR's Susan Stamberg, photographer Marcus Bleasdale, and Dr. Jennifer Leaning of Physicians for Human Rights.

Linda talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. Ludden was with a group of reporters who met with militia leader Charles Taylor. He is one of the most powerful figures in a war which erupted anew ten days ago, leaving the west African nation's peace process in tatters. Fighting and widespread looting have left Monrovia in ruins, and most relief organizations have left the country.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that rebels who are trying to force Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko (moh-BOO-too SAY-say SAY-koh) out of power have succeeded to some extent, holding some four hundred miles of Zairean territory. However, Mobutu is said to be organizing his forces for a counter-attack, and the insurgents' plans for establishing their own government may be running into trouble.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Zaire's capital Kinshasa that many people there are increasingly anxious about the refusal of anti-government rebels to agree to a ceasefire. Kinshasa has long been the center of the non-violent opposition to President Mobutu Sese Seko. As the rebels steadily advance, many residents of the capital say the guerrillas should agree to a truce and allow previously scheduled elections to go ahead.

For the second straight day, a river of Rwandan refugees is flowing out of eastern Zaire and returning to their homeland after two miserable years of exile in camps along the border. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the refugees, mostly ethnic Hutus, no longer seem afraid to live under the rival Tutsi-led government, and government authorities are welcoming their countrymen back home.