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Brian Bull of South Dakota Public Radio reports on the fight over Spirit Mound, a key site on the Lewis and Clark trail. With the trail bicentennial coming up, some want to make it an upgraded tourist site. But some Indian tribes consider it sacred and don't want millions of tourists walking there.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews the premiere of the new Comedy Central sitcom about life in the Bush Whitehouse, –Thats My Bush— by the creators of –South Park.—

The Car Talk guys, TOM & RAY MAGLIOZZI talk with Terry about their first garage and more. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Rob Gifford about the view from Beijing of the situation involving the American reconnaissance airplane. He says the Chinese public seems to want an apology from the U.S. but the level of anger has not reached the height that it did in 1999 after the accidental U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

NPR's Richard Knox reports on a new plan issued by Harvard University to bring AIDS treatments to the developing world. It spells out ways to rapidly expand the distribution of AIDS drugs, after new discounts offered by drug companies. But activists say the plan is too conservative and falls short of what's needed to save the lives of tens of millions of people with HIV in the developing world.

The Chinese detention of a U.S. spy plane and its crew is affecting every aspect of the two nations' often fragile relationship. And that may create an opportunity for supporters of Taiwan, the offshore island state that China considers a wayward province. The budding crisis may be a boon to members of Congress who want the U.S. to sell state-of-the-art weapons to Taiwan. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

The idea of one nation publicly apologizing to another is a relatively recent development in international diplomacy. Robert Siegel talks about it with Elazar Barkan, chair of the cultural studies department at Claremont Graduate University and author of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices. (4:00) The Guilt of Nations is published by W.W. Norton & Company.

NPR's Emily Harris reports organized labor is disturbed about several Bush administration decisions and is preparing to oppose Republican congressional candidates next year. Organized business, on the other hand, is taking its issues to the administration, especially at the regulatory level of federal agencies.

NPR's David Welna reports on today's action in the House of Representatives on the proposed repeal of estate taxes. The plan would reduce the top rate of 55 percent to 39 percent by 2010, and then phase it out altogether in 2011. It's a move that is expected to cost $193 billion over the next 10 years.

In an effort to stabilize their economies, a number of South American countries have fixed the value of their currencies to the American dollar. In Argentina, for example, bank customers can get their money in either pesos or U.S. dollars. They're worth the same amount. But there's a downside to the move -- those countries have essentially ceded control over their economies. Some of them are now reconsidering the idea. NPR's Martin Kaste reports.