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NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a study which finds a woman need not get a complete physical in order for her doctor to determine whether its safe to use hormonal birth control, like "the pill." The study appears in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Melissa Block about the federal government's closing arguments in the trial of four men charged in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The prosecution argued today that it has proven the bombings were carried out as part of a plot by followers of Saudi exile Osama bin Laden to wage Jihad -- or holy war -- against America. If convicted, two of the defendants could face the death penalty.

Noah Adams talks with NPR's Debbie Elliott about the verdict reached in the trial of a former Ku Klux Klansman for the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama church. Thomas Blanton Jr. was convicted of murder in the explosion at the Sixteenth Street Church, which killed four black girls. Adams and Elliott discuss the closing arguments and reaction to the verdict.

NPR's Rachel Jones reports on a study which claims that the use of home monitors to track an infant's heart-rate does not necessarily prevent the occurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. The study appears in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

In the latest Radio Expedition from NPR and the National Geographic Society, Alex Chadwick examines how an ore used in the production of electronics has been linked to the massacre of wildlife at a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Coltan is a metal used in computers and cell phones. The miners who extract coltan have killed thousands of elephants and gorillas for food. (8:39)(S

NPR's Rob Gifford reports in a surprising turn of events, the Chinese Communist Party has started quoting Confucius. Most of the last half century, the party has tried to eliminate Confucius from public discourse. The revival of Confucionism might be an attempt to build public confidence in the government, which is riddled with corruption.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on the meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. This weekend's gathering was notably calmer than last year, when 10,000 protesters arrived to denounce the World Bank and try to shut the meetings down.

NPR's Alex Van Oss reports Lawrence Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. His decisions to change the Smithsonian's current system have drawn sharp criticism from current staff as well as outsiders.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on preparations for what's expected to be another bad wildfire season in the West. But federal agencies are also getting the jump on fires by setting prescribed burns in some forests, in an effort to prevent them from burning out of control.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the defense of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton Jr. in the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing trial. Blanton is charged with murder in the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Fours girls died in the blast. The defense says prosecutors have produced nothing that directly links Blanton to the crime.