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California's power crisis is making some American businesses look north. Tom Banse reports that British Columbia is using the power shortage as an opportunity to sell its own energy to California companies worried about high costs and unreliable service.

David D'arcy reports on "outsider art"-- works produced by self-taught artists. The work is known for its unconventional materials as well as for the unusual biographies of some of its creators.

In anticipation of upcoming writers' and actors' strikes, Hollywood studios are shooting more and more "reality" shows. NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports on the advantages of "reality TV" -- they are non-union, don't use actors or "writers" in the traditional sense, and like Survivor, have the potential to be very profitable.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that the Bush administration is trying to counter the environmental and workplace regulations passed in the last few weeks of the Clinton administration. While the administration can't repeal the regulations outright, it can delay implementation or cut funding for enforcing them.

The struggle of the dot-com industry has left many failed Internet companies struggling to pay back investors. Ruby De Luna, of member station KUOW in Seattle, reports on the aftermath of the dot-com bust -- the dot-com auction.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the tension between Italy and Montenegro, Serbia's smaller partner in the Yugoslav federation. Italian officials claim Montenegrins are smuggling everything from drugs to prostitutes into Italy by way of the Adriatic Sea.

The first significant research stemming from the recent mapping of the human genome is being published this week. In honor of this momentous accomplishment, NPR's Alex Chadwick and Richard Harris take a tour through a human cell.

A recording of Nelson Mandela's defense speech, delivered before his imprisonment on Robben Island in 1964, has been deciphered by the British Library using one of the last surviving machines capable of retrieving it. On the 11th anniversary of his release from prison, the tapes capture Mandela's defiant closing words to a three-hour speech given at the end of his trial in Pretoria.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea about President Bush's plan this week to focus on the military by touring bases. The president begins today by traveling to Georgia.

Commentator Kevin Phillips says the Bush administration's efforts to eliminate the inheritence tax is illegitimate for someone who owes his presidency not to the popular vote, but to the Supreme Court.