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The Pavlok electric shock bracelet is connected to a smartphone, and it is supposed to shock you if you do something forbidden like watching TV.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with former Iranian soccer coach Katayoun Khosrowyar about Sahar Khodayari, a young woman who died after trying to watch a stadium soccer game in Iran.

of Travel Agents about the prospects for Valujet. The airline expects the Federal Aviation Administration gives the airline permission to resume it flights later this week. Louchs says customers are likely to fly the low cost carrier again because of assurances that federal inspectors are carefully watching safety requirements.

There's another delay in the vote count in Bosnia. International organizers say it will be Wednesday before they can announce results in the most closely watched race...the race for the three-man national presidency. In Sarajevo, NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that Western diplomats believe the Bosnian Serbs will have to cooperate with the Muslim-Croat Federation, despite the separatist campaign prior to the election. The diplomats believe the Serbs have no other option but to cooperate.

Gillian (JILL-ee-un) Sharpe reports on testimony before the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. A survivor of the killing fields of Bosnia says he saw Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic ((rat-koh MLA-ditch)) watching the killings. The testimony came as the Tribunal considers issuing international arrest warrants for Mladic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ((RAH-doh-vahn KARE-ud-jitch)).

by Digital Equipment Corporation in December. The jury awarded six-million dollars to plaintiffs who said their use of Digital keyboards left them disabled. The court found that Digital should have warned users about the potential of injury. The appeal process is being watched closely by the computer industry.

Meet everybody's favorite unknown Seattle band. Pearl Jam chose the Fastbacks as the opening act for its current world tour. The Fastbacks have been laboring for nearly twenty years on the Seattle club scene. They've watched as their friends became famous (during the major label feeding frenzy that descended on Seattle during the grunge boom) and they didn't. But they've persevered. Marcie Sillman, of member station K-U-O-W, reports.

The Supreme Court today heard arguments on a widely watched case involving an Arizona law requiring that official business be conducted only in English. However, as NPR's Nina Totenberg reports, the justices limited all questions to procedural issues and ignored all constitutional ones, indicating that any decision will leave the question of whether states can impose such restrictions unresolved. A number of states have similar measures.

This weekHBO has been heavily promoting its new movie, Live from Baghdad. It's about the CNN producers and reporters who braved Iraqi censors and Allied bombs to report from a room in the al-Rashid Hotel on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991. Commentator and Time magazine writer James Poniewozik says it might be worth your while to watch this weekend.

Noah Adams talks to NPR's David Welna about today's vote on committee chairs in the House of Representatives. While historically not an especially newsmaking story, it became one this year because of the Republican rule forcing out chairmen after three terms, which resulted in some spirited contests. The most watched result: leadership of the powerful Ways and Means committee.

While much of the world watched the case in the Florida State Supreme Court today, another trial was coming to a conclusion not far away in downtown Tallahassee. In the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, lawyers argued over the fate of about 10-thousand absentee ballots cast in Martin County. Most of them were cast for George W. Bush. The judge in the case promised a ruling tomorrow. NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Tallahassee.

As the West moves ground forces and equipment around in Eastern Europe, the newer members of NATO — like Poland — are watching the growing crisis closely.