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Marie Simmons, author of The Good Egg.

NPR's Rick Karr reports on a copyright battle between a freelance writer and The New York Times. Writer Jonathan Tasini says the Times didn't own his articles and therefore was not authorized to sell them to online periodicals and CD-ROMS with old issues of the newspaper.

President Bush wants access to the crew of an EP3 U.S. Navy spy plane, which made an emergency landing in southern China after a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter jet.

The Internet is spawning a host of new businesses trying to make a buck by providing access to the Web. One entrepreneur is trying to provide service to certain metropolitan areas by keeping a solar-powered airplane circling overhead at 50,000 feet -- sort of a satellite system that's not in outer space. Robert Sigel talks with Marc E. Arnold, chief executive of Angel Technologies in St. Louis, Mo. He joins us by phone from Los Angeles.

This is a landmark year for the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Ky. The Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and its first change of leadership. Naomi Lewin, of member station WGUC, reports.

Commentator Susan Katz Miller remarks on life as the child of an inter-faith marriage. Her mother is Protestant. Her father is Jewish.

In the first interview of a series on money, NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on multi-billionaire George Soros -- a retired financier who is now out to save the world.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the latest development in the race to provide music online. Four companies, including AOL and Real Networks, are working to form a service called Musicnet. This online subscription music service would compete directly with a project by Sony and Vivendi Universal.

Some United Nations attorneys working as defense attorneys for accused war criminals at the Rwandan war crimes tribunal in Tanzania are accused of bribing their clients. It is the accused criminal's duty to choose his or her own attorney. By offering gifts to the accused, attorneys can improve their chances of being chosen. Robert Siegel talks with Dileep Nair, Undersecretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has postponed local elections in England and Wales for five weeks -- a signal that there will be no general election, at least until this summer.