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NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Indonesia that female vice president Megowati Sukarnoputri may have a second shot at the presidency of this mostly male-run country.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Doctor Cheryl Healton of the anti-tobacco American Legacy Foundation. They discuss the Surgeon General's report out today highlighting the differences between smoking habits of men and women. Women especially are the targets of aggressive marketing campaigns.

Commentator Russell Roberts says if President Bush wants to convince Americans of the need for his tax cut, he should rent an old Marx Brothers movie and brush up on Groucho's sales-pitch.

As state and local governments face up to the possibility of budget deficits in the coming year, many are tightening their belts by cutting programs. One of those to face the budget axe is recycling. In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott McCallum wants to cut the state's subsidy for local recyling programs by $10 million. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with John Reindl, Recycling Manager for Dane County, Wisconsin.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with jazz musician Paul Horn about his recordings inside buildings around the world. His most famous recording inside the Taj Mahal became a best seller in 1969. He went back twenty years later and recorded again and for the first time the two recordings are now available on the same cd. We also go with Paul Horn to the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington DC for a short concert. (For more information, visit www.transparentmusic.com. This site will open in a new browser window.)

Commentator Paul Kvinta has double vision this weekend -- one eye on the NCAA college basketball tournament and the other on the Best Actress race at the Oscars.

As the senate debates the McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill, NPR's Peter Overby reports on one of the commissioners of the Federal Election Commission, which regulates campaign funding.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a White House announcement that President Bush will not implement the climate treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan. Democratic leaders in Congress and environmental groups promised to fight Mr. Bush on the Kyoto climate treaty and other recent policy reversals they call setbacks to the environment.

ABC television is starting a new sitcom tonight about a black middle class family -- the only black sitcom currently on the three major networks. It's called My Wife and Kids and stars Damon Wayans. Robert Siegel talks with Paul Farhi, Style writer for The Washington Post, about the show.

Sarah Bardeen reviews the CD Inspiration Information by Shuggie Otis (Shuggie as in sugar). It was first released in 1974 and was recently re-released. Bardeen says that it was an album ahead of its time, incorporating jazz, funk, rock and R+B elements. It's available from Luaka Bop, catalog number 72348-50473-2-9.