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NPR's Bob Mondello takes a look at Faithless, the latest in the 35 year collaboration between filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and actress/director Liv Ullman.

Reese Erlich reports on the Panorama Music Festival in Trinidad, which features the best steel or pan drummers in the country.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Washington Post reporter Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in Indonesia. Thousands of refugees are fleeing the island of Borneo amid skirmishes between soldiers and police.

Arguments began yesterday in Microsoft's appeal of the court order that the company be split apart. NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the proceedings.

Host Bob Edwards highlights the life of award-winning poet, A.R. Ammons. He died Sunday at the age of 75.

Host Bob Edwards talks with William Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International. He says the United States is a leading exporter of devices of torture, and calls for an end to the export of thumbscrews, serrated handcuffs, stun belts, and other instruments.

NPR's Alex Chadwick traipses through an Australian forest custom-grown for koala bears. He learns that koalas have the finicky appetites of toddlers -- they eat eucalyptus leaves, or nothing at all.

In the last part of Morning Edition's February series on what makes a city great, NPR's Susan Stamberg hears how a rich cultural mix, great shopping, and exotic food made people head to London and Amsterdam in droves -- in the 1600's. She speaks with author and historian Simon Schama about the color -- and the dreck, drugs and drink -- of these great cities three centuries ago.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports that the Chinese government today struck back at the United States, calling it hypocritical on human rights. China went on the offensive after the U.S. released a State Department report yesterday, saying that China's human rights record has greatly deteriorated over the past year. Chinese officials discussed the issue during a news conference as U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson was in Beijing. The Chinese government didn't like her remarks either, saying she was ignorant of China's situation. She is pressing China to abolish its "re-education through labor" policy, under which minor offenders can be locked up for several years, without any judicial process.

In the second part of our Changing Face of America series on homeschooling, NPR's Robert Smith tackles the issue of socialization. There's a persistent worry among parents who are considering homeschooling that their children will suffer for lack of the social interaction that happens in schools. There's not much evidence to support that fear. Most homeschoolers interact with peers often -- as members of academic groups and extracurricular sports teams, for example. In fact, some research points to a better quality of interaction for children educated at home who are comfortable with friendships with children older and younger than themselves, as well as adults.