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Phillip Davis reports that NASCAR fans are celebrating the Florida legislature's enactment of a law that makes autopsy photos exempt from public records laws unless a judge releases them. Similar efforts are under way in Georgia, North Carolina and other southern states, following a Florida newspaper's effort to obtain autopsy photos of NASCAR champion racer Dale Earnhardt, who died in a crash Feb. 18 at the Daytona 500. The newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, said it would challenge the new law as unconstitutional.

Film critic HNERY SHEEHAN reviews the new film "The Tailor of Panama," starring Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.

NPR's Peter Kenyon sums up the week's events in the historic Senate campaign-finance reform debate, and looks ahead to possible roadblocks in the House or in the courts.

Noah Adams talks with Jovana Ilic in Belgrade. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested at his house on Friday, according to Serbian media. Ms. Ilic had been at the house before the arrest and provides some details of the arrest. She says Milosevic was reportedly transferred to a justice administration building in central Belgrade.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing that an American citizen has been held by Chinese authorities for over a month without charge. The Chinese born academic, who now holds a U.S. passport, was detained in late February in southern China.

Commentator Jack Germond says that campaign finance reform might help improve the political process -- but legislation alone won't suffice.

NPR's Alex Chadwick explores the northern jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a Swiss biologist, in search of a mysterious, and perhaps entirely new species. This is the final piece in the Radio Expeditions series in Central Africa.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House that German Chancellor Schroeder is expected to question President Bush today on his decision to back away from the global warming treaty. Germany and other U.S. allies in Europe support the Kyoto Treaty, which the United States hasn't ratified.

Host Renee Montagne talks with John Hooper, Berlin Bureau Chief of England's Guardian newspaper, about the train-load of nuclear waste returning to Germany this week. Many thousands of protesters did all they could to stop the train and its radioactive cargo, but German police helped it along.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on the resurrection of the cloning debate in Congress. The controversy goes back to scientist Richard Seed's 1997 announcement that he planned to clone a human before federal regulations could ban the practice. Now, a Kentucky organization wants to offer cloning as an alternative to infertile couples.