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Neuroscientists in California have been able to take cells from human brains hours after death and coax some of the cells to continue dividing in the laboratory. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, for now, the result is of limited practical value, but it could pave the way for generating nerve tissue to treat human disease.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews –Womens Tales from the New Mexico WPA— (Arte Publico Press) a collection of interviews with rural Hispanic women conducted as part of the Federal Writers Project during the Depression and published here for the first time.

NPR's Nancy Marshall reports on a scam that many consumers who shop over the phone are discovering: buying clubs. The services add you to their membership list, and then add their membership fee to your credit card bill without the customer's consent.

Regular weekly political chat between Host Bob Edwards and NPR's Cokie Roberts. They discuss President Bush's first 100 days in office, his trade negotiations, and Congress's take on his budget, which is being debated this week.

NPR 's Claudio Sanchez reports on a movement in the Senate, led by Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords. Jeffords wants to ensure more money is allocated for special education and under-funded schools, before allowing President Bush's budget to pass.

Medical labs and drive-in banks are still using the pneumatic tube, whose heyday was back in the 19th century when the device was a means of sending messages from building to building. The tube made a comeback in the 1970's when engineers figured out how to make it gentle enough for hospitals to transport blood samples. Joel Obermayer reports from Danville, Pennsylvania.

It's National TV Turnoff Week. Washington, D.C., fifth grader, Lidia Jean Kott talks about what it's like to live without television all 52 weeks of the year.

Host Bob Edwards talks with reporter Carlotta Gall of The New York Times. They discuss the returns from Sunday's elections in Montenegro, which could move the region toward separation from Serbia.

NPR's David Welna reports from Orange, Texas, where a dozen residents took part in a role-playing exercise as a congressional committee trying to divvy up the federal budget. The group concluded that the $1.6 trillion tax cut proposed by President George Bush wasn't a prudent idea until the national debt is paid off.

Host Bob Edwards talks with international financial expert and author Randy Epping, about the events over the weekend at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec.