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Noah talks to Kelly Joe Phelps. Phelps switched from jazz guitar to playing country blues and found even more space there for improvisation. His instrument is the lap slide guitar.

A Florida jury today ordered Walt Disney to pay $240 million in damages to two businessmen who alleged the company stole their idea for a sports complex. Disney denied using anyone else's idea for the Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World in Orlando. But the six-member jury found the company guilty of fraud, theft of trade secrets and breaking a confidential relationship. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

NPR's Bob Mondello discusses of a trio of new French films. Their titles are: Alice and Martin, An Affair of Love and Girl on the Bridge.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a preliminary investigation has not yet determined the cause of last year's crash of an Egyptian airliner off the coast of New York. But NTSB Chairman Jim Hall said there were no unresolved safety issues. Egyptair flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in October killing all 217 people on board. Egyptian officials said more work needed to be done, mainly on the Boeing 767's elevator control system. Speculation about the cause of the crash has centered on one of the plane's co-pilots and the possibility that he deliberated plunged the aircraft into the sea. NPR's Guy Raz reports

Scott speaks with reporter Alice Furlaud who remembers the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Alice was there, but missed, it seems, the most important events.

Scott speaks with comedian Margaret Cho about her life and her one woman show, I'm The One That I Want, which is now on film.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Noah talks with Jonathan Zittrain, asst. prof. of law and is co-dir. of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard School of Law. They talk about the efforts of the French legal system to deal with internet access from France to an online auction of Nazi memorabilia by Yahoo. France has a law against the buying and selling of Nazi items. Mr. Zittrain talks about the legal precedents for the law, and the technical difficulty to enacting it.

The city of Santa Monica was one of the first communities in the nation to discover that its underground water source was contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE. Now they are suing seven major oil companies for the money to pay for the cleanup. Nova Safo reports from Santa Monica.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from Portland, Oregon where he's covering George W. Bush's presidential campaign.

Sister Isolina Ferre died this week at the age of 85. She cared for the poor from Brooklyn, Appalachia, to her native Puerto Rico. Scott remembers her.

In Angola, Sierra Leone, and the Congo, the diamond trade has provided insurgent movements with billions of dollars worth of wealth and arms to continue their murderous campaigns. The United Nations has taken unprecedented steps to cut off the illicit diamond trade. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.