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Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It's called wage theft. But in California, the worst offender has paid only a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars in wages he owes workers.

This summer, at a gathering at the University of Michigan,assembled a Top Ten list of unsolved physics problems. NPR's DavidKestenbaum, with the help of two physicists, lays out these questions.

Kate Seelye in Cairo reports a new pop song with a virulent message is topping the charts in the Egyptian capital. The song is entitled I hate Israel. To some extent, it reflects the popular mood.

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts wins the Democratic caucuses in Washington state, and holds a commanding lead as votes are counted in Michigan. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep, NPR's Wendy Kaufman and NPR's David Schaper.

President-elect Barack Obama is appointing his transition team and beginning to form his cabinet. We look at who Obama is meeting with and where he's traveling to over the next several days.

Iraqi's interim Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari is at the center of a growing struggle to lead the country's new government. While Jaafari is the chosen leader of the Shiite that won the most votes in Iraqi elections, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is vying to keep his post.

Ten is an arbitrary number, so NPR's entertainment critic Bob Mondello offers his top 24 movies of 2002. Mondello says 2002 was a record year for box office sales and a better year than 2001 for movie quality. His list ranges from blockbuster adventure to documentary.

A Russian named Grigory Perelman, is credited with helping solve a famous 100-year-old math problem. Both the problem and the man who solved it are a bit of a puzzle.

Some people think competition is an art. Others believe it's a skill. A new book suggests it might be neither — and that there is a science behind winning. Host Michel Martin speaks with authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman about Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing.