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NPR's Jim Zarroli reports the Internet music site CDNow has been purchased by Germany's Bertelsmann conglomerate. The company is one of the most popular retailing sites on the web. But due to costly advertising campaigns and small profit margins, CDNow has lost more than 200-million dollars since it was created.

Democratic strategist Mark Mellman disagrees with the notion that his party lost big on Election Day. Mellman joins NPR's Steve Inskeep to discuss what he thinks needs to be done to reinvigorate the party.

Today President Bush was called upon for the second time to comfort a nation in mourning. He telephoned the families of the lost astronauts and then addressed the nation from the cabinet room. (This is a repeat from earlier in the show.)

When former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic lost the presidential election last September, young people celebrated. His defeat was largely the result of a grassroots effort led by a group of mostly young people called "Otpor" or "Resistance. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with one of the members of Otpor, Slobodan Homen.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Luanda reports on a young Angolan artist, who is attracting growing international attention. The artist, known as Zaytubia, lost both his hands and one eye in a grenade explosion, but still manages to paint by grasping his brushes between his elbows.

Rachael Myrow of member station KPCC in Los Angeles reports that a major California utility lost its bid to have a federal judge to lift caps on the rates it charges its customers. Southern California Edison will not drop its effort, but will pursue its case through the courts.

In Louisiana, two men fought over a life jacket, one lost and drowned, the other survived and is now charged with murder. John Ydstie talks with Yale law Professor Kate Stith about the ethics, and history involved in this sort of trial.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports on the China reaction to Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement of regret about the lost life of the Chinese fighter pilot. Relations between the two countries remain tense.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden speaks with Yosita Oramahi, an Indonesian now living in Singapore, about the fate of her sister's family in Aceh province. Her sister's husband lost 50 family members.

Scott talks with Lucinda Williams about her new CD, Essence (Lost Highway, 088 170 197-2). This is Ms. Williams' sixth major label recording. Her last release, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Folk Album.