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Many Americans whose earnings place them among the nation's wealthiest people still don't feel consider themselves wealthy, according to tax-time polls. Perceptions of how the U.S. tax code works play into their fears, as do comparisons to others who make a bit -- or a lot -- more. NPR's Madeleine Brand reports.

American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discoveries leading to a technique known as magnetic resonance imaging. MRI is now a routine procedure used to examine the brain and inner organs without surgery. Hear NPR's Richard Knox.

Margaret Sartor offers an account of growing up in 1970s Louisiana in Miss American Pie, a memoir of adolescence told through diary entries written during Sartor's girlhood.

American artist Andrew Wyeth, who painted his neighbors and the landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine, died Friday morning at his home in suburban Philadelphia. Wyeth, who was 91, has been placed in the tradition of artists like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.

Dorie McCullough Lawson's new book features letters to children written by John Adams, Barbara Bush, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Beecher, among others. Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children, written by the daughter of historian David McCullough, spans three centuries of letters from famous parents. Hear McCullough Lawson and NPR's Bob Edwards.

In his book The Latinos of Asia, Anthony Christian Ocampo explores how Filipino-Americans challenge traditional ideas about race and national identity.

Federal officials are working to send out $1,000 checks in the next few weeks to hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. The money stems from a settlement of the Cobell case, a landmark $3.4 billion settlement over mismanagement of federal lands held in trust for Native American people.

As U.S. and British forces battle to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqis in the United States find themselves caught between U.S. intelligence and their own identies as Americans. The FBI is close to completing interviews with about 11,000 Iraqis now living in America as part of its anti-terrorism campaign. Learn more about the nationwide investigation, and see photos of some of the Iraqi Americans questioned by FBI agents.

Nieman Lab has a story about a new partnership between Report for America and the Native American Journalists Association. The story said the…

The frontier is long gone, but the American West clings to some of its roots. Morning Edition presents a series of profiles of people who are inspired by the region's landscape, resources and culture. The series continues with Juan Arambula, the Fresno County supervisor whose passion about education stems from his experiences as a Hispanic child attending the county's public schools. NPR's John McChesney reports.