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There's a pumped-up sports anthem by a star cricket player, a moody Latin duet and a Malaysian song flavored with American rock, Chinese folk and Malay opera.

The Web site Bzzzpeek.com records onomatopoetic animal sounds ("Moo" or "Ribbet") as children from all over the world express them. Interpretations of animal sounds differ from country to country, because the onomatopoeia of languages differs. Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek talk about the site they created.

The teacher won't be returning to work after she told first graders that Santa Claus was not real, according to NJ.com. The school's principal says the substitute showed poor judgement.

The public reaction so far in the Iranian capital to the preliminary agreement Iran and six world powers have reached on the Islamic republic's nuclear program has been positive.

Once it was clear no one was hurt, readers of Pennlive.com were inspired. One reader asked: "What do you get when you crash the Wienermobile into a snowbank?" The answer: "A Chili dog."

Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick, creators of Thirtysomething and executive producers of My So-Called Life, are making news again with a new series. It's called Quarterlife, and it's airing not on TV, but in short, six-to-an-hour episodes on the Web. Some pundits are touting it as an alternative for audiences during the ongoing Hollywood writers' strike. Critic David Bianculli, who's working on the Web himself now at TVWorthWatching.com, has a review.

Video game producer Ellen Hobbs had a problem with an amazon.com order, but could not find a customer-service phone number on the Web site. So she combed the Internet for a number and posted it on her own site. In December alone, more than 23,000 people visited her site to find the telephone number. Hobbs tells NPR's Scott Simon that sometimes customers with problems simply want to talk to a human being.

A former writer for the sit-com Full House, Diana Darby now writes music that stands in stark contrast to her fluffy assignments of the past. Her tales of spousal abuse and adolescent alienation are delivered with a last-gasp breathiness that seems both confessional and foreboding. Frank talks with Darby about her new CD, Naked Time, and the relationships that inspired this haunting work. (11:00) (NOTE: Diana Darby's CD Naked Time is available through Delmore Recordings, catalog # 018. Her website is http://www.dianadarb

Now that the animosity of the 2000 presidential campaign has been reduced to a few discarded protest signs along President Bush's parade route, political scientists are sifting through exit polls for explanations. Dr. John Green of the University of Akron led a national study of voting trends along religious lines. Liane speaks with Green about the increased polarization in this year's election. (5:45) (NOTE: Study can be found at http://www.beliefnet.com/Pewsu

Host Bob Edwards talks to James Ledbetter, about the rise and fall of the Internet magazine, Industry Standard. In his book, Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year, Ledbetter relates how the publication benefited from the dot-com boom and then went bust, likely so many other companies. (Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of the Industry Standard is published by Public Affairs; ISBN: 1586481290)