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Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews Teresa Sterne: A Portrait (Nonesuch) a tribute album to Teresa Sterne, a musical prodigy who took over Nonesuch Records in the early 60s and turned it into the respected label it is today. Sterne died last December of Lou Gehrigs disease.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr doesn't see much hope for bipartisanship in negotiations over the Bush budget.

NPR's Barbara Bradley cruises Washington, D.C., sites linked with espionage on a bus tour run by former spies and spy catchers.

NPR's Guy Raz reports that one of the casualties of German reunification was the Dynamo soccer team in the city of Dresden.

There will be organized protests against rapper Eminem's presence at this year's Grammy Awards. NPR's Rick Karr reports on the controversy and the music behind it.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether police need a warrant before pointing a thermal imaging device at someone's home. Thermal imaging measures the amount of heat emanating from a building. In this case, it was used to find marijuana being grown indoors with strong lights.

Critics say California created its own power crisis with a deregulation plan that let wholesale prices rise and fall without letting retail prices follow. Proponents of deregulation say it works when all players take part in the give and take of market supply and demand. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

February 24th marks the 10th anniversary of the use of ground forces during the Gulf War. NPRs Neal Conan talks with two former lieutenants who were tank platoon leaders with the 24th Infantry Division: Alex Verdon and Greg Downey. The two were just out of college and leading platoons for the first time. They tell their story in the new book, The Eyes of Orion.

Noah Adams talks to Pete Earley, author of Confession of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames, about what motivates spies. He says the biggest motivator is money. (4:15) Earley's book was published by Bantam Books, 1988.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that environmentalists have been crusading against the Mafia to restore the beauty and ecological health of Lake Pergusa.