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Commentator Diana Nyad sides with the PGA in a controversial case now before the Supreme Court. The case "Professional Golfers Association vs. Casey Martin" will decide to what extent professional sports need to edit their rulebooks to conform to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

NPR's Sara Chayes reports on Malcom Miller, an Englishman who has made his life's work to learn, and tell, the history of France's Chartres Cathedral. Since the 1950's, Miller has given tours of the 12th Century cathedral located near Paris.

Two weeks after a 7-point-7 magnitude earthquake hit India, some villages are just beginning to receive tents to temporarily replace their damaged homes. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Varsamadhi.

The Library of America has published a two-volume collection of Edith Wharton's stories. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Maureen Howard, the editor of the collection who reads from Wharton's works.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is back on the agenda of the U.S. Congress. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Health Policy reporter Julie Rovner about the legislation and the disagreements between Capitol Hill and the White House that are preventing the bill from becoming law.

On Friday night a United States submarine surfaced off the coast of Hawaii and hit a Japanese fishing boat. The boat carried Japanese students and teachers from Uwajima Fisheries High School. Nine people are still missing. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Damon Erickson who teaches English at the school, located on the southern Japanese island Shikoku.

Tamara Keith reports from Half Moon Bay in Northern California about how the energy crisis is affecting flower growers working up the rose crop for Valentines Day.

Essayist and California resident Madeline Hnatowich-Dean considers the possibility of another day without electric power.

African American poet Cornelius Eady has published seven poetry collections, and was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His latest, Brutal Imagination (Putnam) is a cycle of poems that revisits the Susan Smith child murder case through the voice of the imaginary black man she said carjacked and kidnapped her children. From New York, Tom Vitale reports.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from India, 17 days after that nation's worst earthquake in 50 years. With aftershocks still shaking the ground and anywhere from 600,000 to one million left homeless, the challenge is now feeding, caring and housing the victims.

Host Bob Edwards remembers Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. Yesterday, the 30-year-old stadium, a Pittsburgh landmark, was destroyed as part of a nationwide effort to make way for a modern generation of stadiums.

Abe Lincoln is finally getting a presidential library, 136 years after his death. Bill Wheelhouse of member station WUIS in Springfield, Illinois, reports on the construction of the library and museum dedicated to the 16th president.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS in San Diego reports that California Gov. Gray Davis announced a plan yesterday to speed up the construction of new power plants over the next several years. It's the latest effort to ease the state's power crisis.

Andrea Dukakis of Colorado Public Radio reports that courts across America are busier than ever. And as case loads increase, so does the number of children who accompany their parents into courtrooms. It's a problem that's forcing some judges to double as babysitters.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR Science correspondent Richard Harris about the recent launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and the cargo it is delivering to the International Space Station. The American-made Destiny module will be the first science laboratory component added to the station.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that the Bush administration is trying to counter the environmental and workplace regulations passed in the last few weeks of the Clinton administration. While the administration can't repeal the regulations outright, it can delay implementation or cut funding for enforcing them.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea about President Bush's plan this week to focus on the military by touring bases. The president begins today by traveling to Georgia.

The first significant research stemming from the recent mapping of the human genome is being published this week. In honor of this momentous accomplishment, NPR's Alex Chadwick and Richard Harris take a tour through a human cell.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Robert Hall, an attorney for Earl Washington, Jr. Washington is a Virginia man who spent nine years on death row for a murder he did not commit. DNA evidence cast heavy doubt on Mr. Washington's guilt, leading Virginia Gov. James Gilmore to pardon him.

Commentator Kevin Phillips says the Bush administration's efforts to eliminate the inheritence tax is illegitimate for someone who owes his presidency not to the popular vote, but to the Supreme Court.

California's power crisis is making some American businesses look north. Tom Banse reports that British Columbia is using the power shortage as an opportunity to sell its own energy to California companies worried about high costs and unreliable service.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on Israeli Prime-Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's efforts to build a national unity government. Sharon's Likud party holds only 19 out of 120 seats in the Israeli Parliament, and many Israelis say that Sharon must include the defeated Labor party in his government in order to accomplish anything.

The struggle of the dot-com industry has left many failed Internet companies struggling to pay back investors. Ruby De Luna, of member station KUOW in Seattle, reports on the aftermath of the dot-com bust -- the dot-com auction.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with commentator John Feinstein about last night's All-Star game and the future of the NBA.

A recording of Nelson Mandela's defense speech, delivered before his imprisonment on Robben Island in 1964, has been deciphered by the British Library using one of the last surviving machines capable of retrieving it. On the 11th anniversary of his release from prison, the tapes capture Mandela's defiant closing words to a three-hour speech given at the end of his trial in Pretoria.