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NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports from Chicago on the city school board's new safety policy. It requires that students released from jail or juvenile detention, be evaluated to determine whether they should be allowed to return to their regular school or be sent to an alternative school. The school board says the policy intends to protect other students from violence. Akers visits the "Second Chance" alternative school in South Chicago.

Part II in a week-long series of essays from prospective college students. Today we hear from Ambar Espinoza, of University High School in West Los Angeles, who tells about growing up in a single-parent family. Read the essays online.

A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the University of Michigan to stop considering race as a factor in its admissions. Robert Siegel talks about the case with Jeffrey Rosen, associate professor of law at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

We hear opinions from some Californians about the approval of higher electricity prices.

Detroit winced today when it learned fewer than a million people were counted as living in the city. The census results are a blow to both civic pride and Detroit's budget. Some say the numbers only catch the Motor City making a big U-turn toward vitality, as Quinn Klinefelter from member station WDET reports.

NPR's Richard Gonzales brings us up to date on the energy crunch that is creating serious problems for the biggest state economy.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court ruling that penalized operators of an anti-abortion website for listing the names of abortion doctors. The appeals court said the threat to the doctors was not explicit enough to justify censure.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's arguments before the Supreme Court on whether states may legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes, despite federal laws against it.

NPR's David Molpus reports on a new style of doing business--no office, no meeting rooms, and co-workers only see each other a few times a year. This is the "virtual" company, and it allows its tele-commuting employees almost total freedom. These virtual businesses may be starting a trend that could forever change the traditional office setting.

Host Renee Montagne speaks with Josef Joffe, editor of Die Zeit about how President Bush's foreign policy plan is being perceived in Europe.