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Daniel interviews pianist Leon Fleisher. In the 1950's and 60's, Fleisher was performing on the concert circuit with some of the best orchestras. But then in 1965 his performing career came to a halt when his right hand stopped functioning because of a repetitive motion injury. For the past 30 years, he's been teaching piano at The Peabody Institute in Baltimore and occasionally performing and recording piano works for the left-hand. Recently, he started performing again with both hands - and he performs for us at his Baltimore practice studio.

Outside of Tokyo's Olympic Stadium, a small mockup of the Olympic rings has stood for the past year. But it wasn't until last week that people began to line up to take pictures.

Political Action Committees are defending themselves from the latest proposal to outlaw them. The legislation could come up in the House this spring or summer, as part of campaign finance reform. Critics say PAC donations to lawmakers give special interest groups too much influence. Supporters say pooled money in PACs give a political voice to Americans without enough money to make large donations. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccination booster shots until more people in low-income nations gets access to their first doses of the vaccine.

Many species are threatened or endangered. One way of saving the animals and the surrounding forest is eco-tourism -- promoting tours for outsiders concerned with the conservation of the ecosystem. In some areas, just a hundred visitors per year would make a huge impact.

TOWN REPORT: Essayist Tim Brookes examines a 1935 town report from he village of Ferrisburg, Vermont.

Scott Schlegel profiles rock guitarist Richie Furay (fyur-RAY). uray first hit public notice as part of the Buffalo Springfield, along with tephen Stills and Neil Young. He went on to Poco, then the Souther, Hillman and uray Band. Furay later became a born-again Christian, and the conflicts between he worlds of rock and roll and religion have had a major impact on his career.

Suzan Lori Parks is one of the hottest playwrights on the New York scene. The Public Theatre is presenting (starting next week) her latest work for the stage, "Venus." She wrote the screenplay for Spike Lee's latest ("Girls 6") and she's been contracted to write another. Charlene Scott reports.

The attorney of David Kaczynski, the brother of the man suspected of being the Unabomber, described the family's efforts in the case. Attorney Tony Bisceglie (Biss-SEGG-lee) told reporters that David had begun to suspect the possibility of his brother's involvement in the Unabomb case last summer, because Theodore had written letters and articles with themes and phraseology similar to the Unabomber, and because he had lived in parts of the country associated with the Unabomber. Bisceglie said that after the Unabomber's manifesto was published last year, David worked with a private investigator and a former FBI behaviour analyst before he went to the FBI. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

Daniel talks with, Frank Kirkpatrick, professor of religion at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, about how Christianity, Islam and Judaism treat the question of evil. Kirkpatrick says that all three view evil as a by-product of the freedom of choice that 'God' has granted human beings. In that way, Kirkpatrick says, the world is rather like a test for people who must constantly chose between good and evil deeds.

of the man federal investigators suspect of being the long sought Unabomber. David Kaczynski led the FBI to his brother, Theodore, who had been residing in a remote mountain cabin in Montana.