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The German Government released figures that shows attacks last year by Neo-Nazis against foreigners have risen by 40 percent over the same period in 1999. From Berlin, NPR's Guy Raz reports on how a group of social psychologists view how history of being passed from one generation to the next.

Lisa talks with Jeanne Thaggard of Austin, Texas. In the 1920s, Thaggard's parents met through the exchange of a message in a shirt pocket, sent from the Montgomery Ward shipping center.

Said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: “We want to make sure we're protecting people's jobs, protecting people's livelihoods. Tossing people aside is just not something that we can tolerate.”

Commentator Carol Wasserman offers an expose about migrant workers working in greenhouses where she lives. She says owners don't want workers to speak English -- so they won't know about bathroom breaks and the poisonous chemicals. She details the horrendous working conditions.

For the past 16 years commentator Reynolds Price has employed male graduate students to run his household. It's the best education for potential husbands.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Oscar nominated art film Pollock, directed and produced by — and starring — Ed Harris. It took him a decade to finish the movie. Mondello says it was worth it.

Linda Wertheimer interviews the authors of two new thrillers: Michael Connelly, about A Darkness More Than Night, and Evan Hunter, about his collaboration with Ed McBain to write Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts. Connelly's book takes main characters from other novels -- an LAPD detective and a retired FBI investigator -- and pits them against one another. Hunter, an acclaimed author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, wrote the first half of Candyland, then looked to his alter-ego for the second half, when it becomes more of a murder mystery. (7:45) A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly, is published by Little, Brown, ISBN # 0-316-15407-5. Candyland, by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain is published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN # 0-7432-1316-5.

Some people spy for money, some for ideology, and others just for adventure. But no one is sure why former FBI counter-intelligence specialist Robert Hanssen may have volunteered to betray U.S. intelligence secrets to the Russians. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on his possible motivations.

Commentator Jill Maxi Schreibman knows firsthand what it's like to be laid off by a dot-com company.. .and she's determined not to go through it again.

Cuomo was forced from office after nearly a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment. He now faces a criminal complaint alleging he forcibly touched a female staff member.

The Houston, Texas trio Spoon has recorded their first album in three years, it's called Girls Can Tell. The music is rock and roll with a tinge of punk -- and it was released today. Nick Mirov writes about music for Pitchfork Media-dot-Com, he has a review. (4:00) The album Girls Can Tell by Spoon is available on Merge Records, catalog # MRG195, see www.mrg2000.com. Also see www.pitchforkmedia.com.

Former President Bill Clinton has asked his brother-in-law to return money he received in connection with pardons Mr. Clinton granted to two convicted felons at the end of his term. Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother Hugh was given about 200-thousand-dollars for successfully lobbying for the pardons. Noah Adams speaks with NPR's Mara Liasson about it.

At his first official White House press conference, President Bush continued to take the high road on the subject of last minute pardons by former President Clinton. We hear an excerpt. And NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the effort made today by New York Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to distance herself from the latest controversies surrounding the granting of last-minute pardons by her husband.

One of the two people that Hugh Rodham advocated pardons for was convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali. Noah talks with Stephen Braun of the Los Angeles Times.

The other subject of Hugh Rodham's advocacy was A. Glenn Braswell, who was convicted of fraud and perjury in connection with the marketing of herbal supplements. Noah talks with Peter Slevin of the Washington Post, who has been covering the story.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's former White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the latest developments in the story of former President Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Sue Hecht, a Democrat in the Maryland House of Delegates. Hecht saw her mother abused in a care home for the elderly, and she has introduced legislation that would permit video cameras to be placed in nursing homes.

NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from New Delhi on an unusual political fight-- Indian prostitutes want to be counted as workers, instead of beggars, in the country's census.

Last night's Grammy awards were a combination of the unusual and the mundane. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Napster has offered one-billion dollars to settle a lawsuit with the recording industry. Record labels contend the online music service violates copyrights by helping its users copy music from each other for free. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Chris Arnold about Napster's settlement offer.

A consortium of AIDS drug makers is suing the South African government, trying to block a law they say will erode their patent rights...and their profits. The law would allow the government to import generic drugs or authorize their manufacture, if needed drugs are priced too high. AIDS activists want the government to implement the law, so that the estimated four million infected with H-I-V will have access to life-sustaining drugs. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from Johannesburg.

More letters from listeners who suggest some ways that everyday items could be better designed.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports that the largest concentration of Zapatistas in Mexico isn't in the jungles of Chiapas, but rather in Mexico City. Zapatistas are indigineous to Mexico and have been fighting since 19-94 for more rights. Right now, a caravan of Zapitistas from Chiapas -- a so-called caravan of peace -- is headed to Mexico City to help further their cause. And Zapitistas in the capital hope it will shed light on their particular urban problems.

Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Thomas Hayden, who donated some genetic material to the Human Genome Project, and who wrote an essay in today's New York Times magazine.

Lisa Simeone talks with three newspaper reporters who cover the new governors in Massachusetts (Tina Cassidy of the Boston Globe), New Jersey (David Halbfinger of the New York Times), and Wisconsin (Steve Walters of the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal).