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NPR's Elaine Korry reports that some businesses in California are demanding that power suppliers warn them when they will be hit with a black-out.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash spoke with young millionaires who sold their AOL stock at just the right time.

Record producer and songwriter NEIL INNES (IN-ess). He is a founding member of the comedy-rock group "The Bonzo Dog Band." He's also a member of "The Rutles," the band which he and Eric Idle of Monty Python, created as a spoof of the Beatles. INNES is also considered the "seventh Python" player because he provided and performed comedy music for the Monty Python troupe. The Rutles first came to the attention of the public in 1978 when their spoof documentary "All You Need is Cash" aired. Many of the original stars of Saturday Night Live appeared in the film. The film has just been released on DVD.

Actress JOAN CUSACK. She has received two best supporting actress Oscar nominations -- in 1988 for her role in Working Girl, and in 1997 for her role in In and Out. Her other movies include Broadcast News, Grosse Pointe Blank, Arlington Road, The Cradle Will Rock, Runaway Bride, and High Fidelity, based on the novel by Nick Hornby. She has a new sit com on ABC called "What About Joan." It airs Tuesday nights.

Pandemic predictions have been made — and then things would change. But based on models and studies (including a 1980s test that squirted virus up human noses), researchers have a new endgame thesis.

Spy novelist JOHN LE CARRE. His novels, almost every one of which is considered a masterpiece of the genre, include "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold," "A Small Town in Germany," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "The Little Drummer Girl." Several of his works have been made into movies. The new film "The Tailor of Panama" is based on his book.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports from Washington that the State Department is weighing the question of whether Yugoslavia has been cooperating with the war crimes tribunal in the Hague. Congress has demanded that the new authorities in Belgrade show cooperation by tomorrow, March 31, or forfeit further U.S. aid. Although the most wanted suspect, Slobodan Milosevic, was reportly arrested tonight in Belgrade, the administration is making no immediate announcement on certification.

Robert Siegel talks to sportstwriter Stefan Fatsis of the Wall Street Journal about baseball's opening day on Sunday. The Texas Rangers -- the team President Bush used to own -- play the Toronto Blue Jays in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Adam Hochberg about officials in North Carolina who said they were testing a pig suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease. But the U.S. Agriculture Department says the tests turned out be negative.

A U.S. agreement to share nuclear submarine technology with Australia caused a rift with France. On Friday President Biden reiterated to President Emmanuel Macron that France is a valued partner.

NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Daniel Schorr discuss Schorr's trip to Havana, where he attended a Cuban-American conference on the 40th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Scott speaks with Jeanette Hardy, a garden writer, about the unique and varied types of irises found in Louisiana. It is currently the height of iris blooming season in the swamps and bayous of Louisiana.