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Whitehead Reviews Ralph Gleasons Jazz Casual Series, a collection of Gleasons 1960s TV show on DVD and video.

Globalization appears to be a mixed blessing: the global economy is making life better for some people, and hurting others, sometimes in unexpected ways. Daniel Zwerdling of NPR News and American RadioWorks has a story about how an obscure kind of international trade -- used tires -- might be making the country more vulnerable to disease. (12:30) Read more about Mosquitoes and Tires.

The Census Bureau officially announced today that the number of Hispanics in the U.S. has increased dramatically since the last census. The figures show Hispanics drawing roughly even with non-Hispanic blacks. The growth rate for the whites was much slower than for minority groups. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

David Greenberger reviews the new CD from singer/songwriter Dave Fischoff, called The Ox and the Rainbow. Fischoff has a distinctive, quiet, spare sound, with intimate arrangements. His songs usually consist of a solo guitar and no other voices but his, with a deep resonating bass drone that makes his work more mysterious and melancholy. The CD is on Secretly Canadian Records; they're a small independent label from Bloomington, Ind.

From member station KCUR, Frank Morris reports on calls from some Missouri lawmakers for state intervention in the long-troubled Kansas City school district.

In Chinese cities, the divorce rate has tripled since 1980 as the Communist Party has allowed more personal freedom. It is common for men to have extramarital affairs. Men who leave their wives often provide little or no support. China's old divorce law is largely silent on the subject of alimony because private property did not exist when the law was written. Now China is revising the law. Because there is more public debate on these matters, women are helping to shape the new law, wrestling with questions like "should adulterers be imprisoned?" NPR's Rob Gifford reports.

AIDS activists protest in Washington, D.C., today. South African Ambassador Sheila Sisulu joins representatives from ACT UP, Oxfam, and Doctors Without Borders at a rally "to demand an end to 'medical apartheid'". The rally included a march to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association.

The use of biometrics -- identifying people on the basis of physical characteristics -- was once used mainly for law enforcement purposes. Now, it is becoming more common to identify everyday Americans. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on a Pennsylvania school district that uses fingerprint technology to identify schoolchildren in the lunchroom.

Noah Adams talks with David Smith, assistant principal of Whitwell Middle School in Whitwell, Tenn., about the school's paper clip project. He says that, after the Columbine High School shooting, the principal wanted to find a program to teach students about tolerance. The idea: teach the kids about the Holocaust, in a hands on, interactive way. Smith came up with the idea of collecting 6 million paper clips, to represent the 6 million Jews who died during the Holocaust. He explains who he got the idea, and how the collection involves student research and communication with people from around the world. More info available at: www.marionschools.org/holocaust.

A number of critics have called David Ware the heir to the throne of Coltrane. An adventurous saxophonist who's signed to a major label, Ware was mentored by Sonny Rollins; he played with Cecil Taylor; and he drove a cab. Karen Michel has the profile.