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Serb authorities are attempting to arrest Slobodan Milosevic. Scott speaks with reporter Jovana Illic.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on an Iinternet billionaire who has bought himself a basketball team. Mark Cuban figured out how to stream audio over the internet. That endeavor financed his purchase of the Dallas Mavericks, but although the team is doing well, Cuban himself is receiving mixed reviews.

NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Daniel Schorr discuss Schorr's trip to Havana, where he attended a Cuban-American conference on the 40th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Scott speaks with Jeanette Hardy, a garden writer, about the unique and varied types of irises found in Louisiana. It is currently the height of iris blooming season in the swamps and bayous of Louisiana.

Scott talks with playwright Alan Bennett about his first novel, The Clothes they Stood Up In, which is about how a burglary changes the life of a proper British couple. (12:00).

It costs a lot of money to rent a tuxedo for the prom. So Aaron Theisen has decided not to wear one. It's not that he can't swing the cost. He thinks the money can be better used. Theisen is donating the amount he'd otherwise spend on a tux to the Cystic Fibrosis foundation. And he's convinced some other kids to follow. Noah Adams talks with Aaron Theisen, a high school senior at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

After nearly three years of war in Congo, an American aid agency says the conflict has cost close to 3 million lives. Robert Siegel talks with Dr. Les Roberts, an epidemiologist and the director of Health Policy for the International Rescue Committee in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Luanda reports on a young Angolan artist, who is attracting growing international attention. The artist, known as Zaytubia, lost both his hands and one eye in a grenade explosion, but still manages to paint by grasping his brushes between his elbows.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports thousands of Mexican guest workers who worked in the United States during World War II say they have never received the money that was set aside for their retirement. With interest, the retirement fund would be considerably bigger today. Class action suits and a new commission in Mexico are trying to find out what happened to the money.

Commentator Patrick Maney says the fascination with the first 100 days of the American presidential term started with the successes of President Franklin Roosevelt.