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NPR's Eric Weiner in Jerusalem reports there is no sign of a let-up to the violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Commentator Marion Winik says today's low unemployment rate (relatively speaking) can mean bad service. Knowing you can always find another job means never having to say "Can I help you?"

Robert Siegel talks to sportstwriter Stefan Fatsis of the Wall Street Journal about baseball's opening day on Sunday. The Texas Rangers -- the team President Bush used to own -- play the Toronto Blue Jays in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In two separate experiments, scientists have repaired injured rodent hearts by transplanting into them stem cells, cells that are capable of developing into many cell types. The stem cells stimulated the development of new blood vessels and muscle tissue in the hearts of mice and rats. While more research needs to be done before the procedure can be tried in humans, NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists hope that it will someday help people who've had heart attacks.

Noah Adams watches a game in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament with some of the members of the Bishop McNamara High School girl's basketball team -- at the home of their coach. For the team members, the game is instructive as well as entertaining. They see their future hopes and challenges in the game on TV.

Commentator Nancy Hall is a wife, mother and member of the PTA. Recently she decided to try something new. She's taken up kickboxing and karate, inspired by her grandmother. Saturday nights, her ladylike church-going granny went to the fights.

Robert Siegel talks with Stanley Kunitz, U.S. poet laureate. This weekend Mr. Kunitz is reading his poems at the People's Poetry Gathering in New York City. The gathering kicks off National Poetry Month which begins Sunday.

Robert Siegel talks to Congressman Roy Blunt of Missouri, the chief deputy to the majority Whip, about the campaign finance reform legislations in the House. The House leadership intends to send the campaign finance reform bill to a conference.

Andrew Kohut of the Pew Center for the People and the Press talks about reasons why the public isn't interested in campaign finance reform.

Bob Garfield, co-host of the NPR's On the Media, reports on the world of movie blurbs, those words and phrases extracted from reviews in order to market movies -- even when the review trashes the movie. Brief bursts of apparent gusto from a known critic can be assumed to have been printed out of context. But many reviewers like to see themselves quoted -- even incorrectly.