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For years visitors have stood on the stainless steel Greenwich Meridian Line. Scientists say that marking was in the wrong place because distortions caused by gravity weren't taken into account.

At 156 years old, Big Ben — London's famous clock — is chiming six seconds behind schedule. Fixes could silence it for three years. Still, Big Ben's unauthorized twitter account keep ticking.

2: Writer TRACY JOHNSTON. She's written the book, "Shooting the Boh: a Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo," (Vintage Books). The book is not only an account of her adventure going down the river dealing with leeches, waterfalls, foot rot, and moldy clothes, but about her own realization that the hot flashes she was feeling in the middle of the night weren't the steamy jungle but the onset of menopause. One reviewer writes, "A powerful adventure of the head as well as the body: not to be missed," (Kirkus Reviews). REBROADCAST. Originally aired 1/

Writer TRACY JOHNSTON. She's written a new book, "Shooting the Boh: a Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo," (Vintage Books). The book is not only an account of her adventure going down the river dealing with leeches, waterfalls, foot rot, and moldy clothes, but about her own realization that the hot flashes she was feeling in the middle of the night weren't the steamy jungle but the onset of menopause. One reviewer writes, "A powerful adventure of the head as well as the body: not to be missed," (Kirkus Reviews).

The Bush administration prepares to make a change in the way it helps the sick and impoverished around the world. The new Millennium Challenge Account fund would double U.S. aid for development over the next three years, but critics fear some nations will be left out. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

A federal judge tosses a legal challenge brought by the General Accounting Office, in which the agency sought to learn more about meetings between Vice President Dick Cheney, energy company lobbyists and oil industry officials. NPR's Michele Norris discusses the case with NPR's Nina Totenberg.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell implores the international community to meet its responsibility to disarm Iraq, saying the burden is on Saddam Hussein to avoid war by accounting for "missing" biological and chemical agents. And he says at least a dozen nations would support a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. A report from U.N. arms inspectors is due Monday. NPR News reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks wtih Vikram Parekh, Researcher on South Asia for Human Rights Watch about Human Rights Watch's lastest report, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, which gives eye witness accounts of a massacre in January in the central highlands of Afghanistan, as well as new evidence related to an earlier massacre last May. During both events, the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic group, previously targeted by Taliban forces for abuse. Afghan humanitarian aid workers were also killed.

Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest people who follow the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet advocated by Dr. Robert Atkins can indeed lose more weight than those on conventional low-fat diets. But some researchers say the results do not account for the long-term health effects of a high-fat diet. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Fuel supplies for the Palestinian Authority have nearly been exhausted; its Israeli supplier has cut off deliveries because the authority's account is $80 million in arrears. Gas stations in Ramallah, the Palestinians' political and commercial capital, are closed, and drivers say that once their tanks run dry, they will have to stay home.