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NPR's Larry Abramson reports on a study that shows fewer people are falling victim to gunshot wounds during the commission of crimes. The Justice Department says the number of gunshot wounds fell almost 40 percent from 1993 and 1997. Experts credit a number of factors, including the aging of the population and longer prison sentences for violent criminals.

If you liked the movie, now go see the opera. From member Station KQED in San Francisco, Cy Musiker reports on the new opera inspired by the book Dead Man Walking about a nun working with death row prisoners.

NPR's Anne Garrels in Belgrade reports on efforts by the new Yugoslav President, Vojislav Kostunica, to consolidate his hold on power.

NASA unveils results from an unmanned space probe that reveal the universe's age, composition and fate. Scientists say the results mark a turning point in cosmology. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan expresses skepticism for President Bush's $1.3-trillion tax-cut package and says Congress must to get the budget deficit under control before it considers any further tax cuts. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Noah talks to an out of work Serbian lawyer Biljana Obradovic. She lives in the town of Kraljevo. She says she and her husband have been anti-Milosevic for the past ten years. She has never found work and hopes the change in government will allow her to do so.

NPR's David Welna talks to Serbs in Chicago about the political change in Yugoslavia and what they think should happen to former President Slobodan Milosevic. They also worry about their own image in the U.S.

Commentator Desree Cooper was shopping with her mother when they ran into a woman who was from the same town. That's not the only coincidence...Desree's family used to work for this woman's family. Desree expected an awkward moment in the chance meeting.

He has just returned from several weeks in Afghanistan. His book, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, is now out in paperback. He's also the author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Rashid is a correspondent for The Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph, reporting on Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.

Filmmaker Mike Hodges. His debut work, the 1971 Get Carter, was hailed as the greatest British thriller ever. It starred Michael Caine. A new remake of Get Carter is out in theatres, starring Sylvestor Stallone, with an appearance by Caine. Hodges also directed the recent film Croupier.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on efforts on Capitol Hill to develop a "patients' bill of rights," which seems unlikely to be approved this year. Negotiators also are working on a "drug reimportation" bill, which would make it easier to import US made drugs after they've been exported, and sell them at lower prices than drugs intended for the US market. The drug bill's chances of becoming law are unclear. It is attached to a popular agriculture measure, and has a better chance of survival than if it stood alone.

In this special edition of Lost and Found Sound, 20 years of recordings from a small tobacco town were recorded by James Eddie McCoy. The collection is called A Man Tapes his Town -The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy.