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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Joe Nocera, executive editor of Fortune magazine, about a recent court case against McDonald's, in which the plaintiff sued the fast food franchise for causing his obesity. The case was thrown out of court, but Nocera says this may not be the last lawsuit against a fast food restaurant, particularly if plaintiffs focus not on the addictive qualities of fast food, but on misleading advertising of the companies that sell it.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Atul Gawande, author of Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science. It's a book about the imperfection of medicine and the fallibility of doctors.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports on poet Dana Gioia, who has just been named to lead the National Endowments for the Arts and the problems he will face in running the organization that has had its conservative critics.

NPR's Scott Simon reviews the week's news with NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and literary critic Paul Fussell about his new book Uniforms, Why We Are What We Wear, which documents the uniforms... both formal and informal... that we all wear each day.

The space shuttle Columbia shatters minutes before a planned landing in Florida Saturday morning. President Bush tells the nation: "Columbia is lost. There are no survivors." Listen to NPR News.

Space shuttle Columbia breaks into pieces over Texas, killing all seven crew members aboard. President Bush tells the nation the work of the space program will go on. NASA engineers begin the grim task of determining what went wrong. NPR News reports.

NPR News coverage of the space shuttle Columbia disaster continues.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with musician Michael Feinstein and Ray Evans, half of the songwriting team Livingston and Evans, who wrote such classics as "Mona Lisa," "Que Sera Sera," and the theme to the television show "Mister Ed," about a new CD, The Livingston and Evans Songbook.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on Vaclav Havel's last day in office as president of the Czech Republic.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michael Levad of the Franklin Institute Science Museum about how he taught 30 school children three different chimp calls. The students were part of a ceremony announcing that anthropologist Jane Goodall will receive the Benjamin Franklin Award in Life Science for her work with chimpanzees.

President Bush proposes the "Terrorist Threat Integration Center," a new surveillance initiative aimed at improving coordination among the FBI, the CIA and other federal intelligence agencies. But some analysts say it won't overcome decades-old rivalries between U.S. spy agencies. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.