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There are just 11 students at California's Death Valley Elementary, one full-time teacher and one teaching aide. The small-school environment helped one pupil overcome speech and language delays, and many of her classmates are working above grade level.

Ocean ports are among the last major unregulated sources of concentrated pollution in the country. The biggest are the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. But there's a new man in charge. Tough-talking David Freeman, who helped establish the Environmental Protection Agency says he's going to slash pollution at Southern California's ports by 80 percent.

Los Angeles police have arrested two elderly women on mail fraud charges for allegedly luring two homeless men into a life-insurance scam. The men turned up dead in still- unresolved hit and run cases; the women were $2.2 million richer after collecting their life insurance policies.

Morels are a chef's mushroom, opulent, earthy tasting, and delectable in cream. T. Susan Chang muses on her fascination with the wild fungi -- and the devotees who brave countless miles of poison ivy and pests to forage for them.

Lee Boyd Malvo testifies at the trial of sniper John Allen Muhammad. Malvo was previously convicted as Muhammad's accomplice in a series of 2002 Washington-area sniper killings. He tells the court how Muhammad trained him to commit the crime. Muhammad is on trial in Maryland on six murder charges. He has already been sentenced to death in Virginia.

In The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley describes a city ripe for disaster as Hurricane Katrina approached shore — crippled by poverty, police corruption, gang violence and lacking a real, workable disaster plan.

The FBI revealed Sunday that Rep. William Jefferson, under investigation for bribery, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded.

Director Ron Howard's adaptation of the book by Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code walks a careful line. On one side lies world-famous art and shadowy figures. On the other is Howard, attempting to bring a unique interpretation to light.

Modernization in China has created a host of problems for farmers -- among them, the loss of farmland to industry and the onset of industrial pollution. The plight of one village illustrates the difficulties.

Film commentator Kenneth Turan talks to Renee Montagne about yesterday's premier of The Da Vinci Code at the Cannes Film Festival. He says the movie sacrifices excitement as it strives to remain true to the book.