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Latino USA's Maria Martin reports on the results of a survey of political attitudes among Latinos across the country. 1,000 Latinos were polled on campaign issues such as the economy, immigration policy, and gun control, among other things.

This week, Polish-born Jan Karski, one of the first people to report an eyewitness account of the Nazi Holocaust to the West, died in Washington D.C. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Karski biographer Tom Wood. Wood is the author of Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. Jan Karski was a liason officer for the Polish underground during World War II and a retired history professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He was 86.

Scott and Daniel Pinkwater read from the children's book Brave Potatoes, a story about a group of potatoes and their attempt not to spend life on a couch or in a pan.

Figures from the Centers for Disease Control show AIDS is now the leading cause of death for African-Americans aged 25 to 44 years old. Jacki talks with Rev. Eugene Rivers, pastor of the Azusa Christian Community in Dorchester, Massachusetts about his crusade to fight the spread of AIDS and HIV among Africans and African Americans. Rivers has issued an open letter to churches and other organizations to urge them to step up activism in Africa and the across the U.S.

Harriet Jones reports on the continuing effort to identify the dead from the massacre in Srebrenica. She visits the town of Tuzla where scientists are using the latest DNA identification techniques to attempt to give grieving families a sense of closure.

Liane talks with Charles Pelkey of Velo News, who has been covering the Tour de France bike race. With one week left, American Lance Armstrong appears to be on track for his second consecutive victory. Armstrong overcame cancer to win the grueling event last year; this year, his strong riding through the mountains has given him a solid lead.

Liane talks live with NPR Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark about secret peace negotiations being held at Camp David between PLO leader Yassir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

NPR's Mexico City Correspondent Gerry Hadden reports on President-elect Vicente Fox's efforts to put together a cabinet as he prepares to take over the nation's top job. Fox brings a businessman's experience and priorities to a position that has been dominated by politicians and cronism for more than 70 years.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from China where film director Ang Lee has been working on a new movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is a kung fu film, a first for Lee. He is best known for his adaptatation of novels such as Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Rick Moody's The Ice Storm, as well as movies like The Wedding Banquet and Pushing Hands.

Liane talks with Chinese actress and author Anchee Min about her new book, Becoming Madame Mao, a biography of Jiang Ching, the fourth wife of the late Chinese Premier Mao Tse Tung. ("Becoming Madame Mao" is published by Houghton Mifflin.)

Nancy Marshall reports on the long-running dispute over how and whether slavery should be represented at Civil War battlefield sites. Congress recently passed an Act requiring that exhibits on slavery be placed at all Civil War battlefield visitor centers.

Jeff Rice of member station KUAZ in Tucson, Ariz., visited Tohono Chul Park for its annual "Queen of the Night" celebration, and sent this audio postcard. Rice spoke with visitors who came to the park to enjoy the cereus, a fragrant cactus flower that blooms only one night a year.