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President Bush continues his baseball romance by throwing out the first pitch at Milwaukee's new ballpark tonight. The stadium project was dogged by problems from conception to completion, including a fatal crane accident, a political scandal and major cost overruns. Chuck Quirmbach of Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

The Senate approved a budget last night, but with a tax cut smaller than President Bush asked for. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Leonard Shelby is a man with brain injury. He can't make new memories. He's also a man seeking revenge for the murder of his wife. This is the basis for the movie Memento. It's based on a short story by writer Jonathan Nolan. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jonathan and his brother filmmaker Christopher Nolan about their collaboration.

Commentator Daniel Ferri, who teaches sixth grade in Chicago, brings us a vignette from some of the first steps out from behind the curtain of childhood onto life's grand stage.

Alchemy in outer space? Not exactly. But a new theory about gold -- and some other heavy metals -- suggests they're created when two specific types of stars collide. Linda Wertheimer talks Stephen Rosswog, research associate in physics and astronomy at the University of Leicester, England.

Today, President Bush expressed his own regrets about Sunday's collision between an American reconnaissance plane and a Chinese fighter jet. And he shrugged off the budget setback dealt by the Senate yesterday. The budget process is a long and winding road, the president said. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Maidstone, England, that a jury found Dutch truck driver Perry Wacker guilty of manslaughter today in the deaths of 58 illegal Chinese migrants. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Wacker transported the Chinese migrants in his truck on a ferry from Belgium to Dover last year.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a new trend in medicine -- using extreme treatments for diseases that aren't immediately life-threatening. We look at how doctors are using bone-marrow transplants and other treatments traditionally reserved for severe cancer cases in patients with diseases like arthritis and multiple sclerosis. It's a controversial approach and effectiveness studies are only now getting started. But it's helping some people return to normal, disease-free lives.

Commentator Reynolds Price thinks back to the phrase "this week's play in front of last weeks sets." It's a phrase he remembers from reading Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past.

Robert Siegel talks with retired Lt. Gen. William E. Odom about how pilots are trained to behave when they are in the custody of another nation. Odom is former head of the National Security Agency, director of National Security Studies at the Hudson Institute, and adjunct professor of political science at Yale University.