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NPR's Jackie Northam reports on members of a wandering band of young Sudanese refugees who are being resettled in the American Midwest. After losing their parents during the country's 40 years of civil war, thousands of orphans streaming into Kenya became known as the 'Lost Boys of Sudan.'

Two men died this week whose names may not be immediately recognizable, but whose ideas had a real impact on our society.

Reverend Carroll Pickett has stood alongside 95 inmates during their executions in Huntsville, Texas. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Reverend Pickett about Attorney General John Ashcroft's decision to allow injured victims and victim family members in the Oklahoma City Bombing to watch Timothy McVeigh's execution next month. To hear more from Reverend Pickett and other observers of Huntsville's death chamber, you can listen to the radio documentary Witness to an Execution produced by Stacy Abramson and David Isay. Just go to www.soundportraits.org.

Lisa talks with author Adrian House about his new bookFrancis of Assisi: A Revolutionary Life. Francis, who lived from 1182 to 1226, started out as a party-boy. At age 24, he underwent a religious conversion, and began a spiritual journey that continues to inspire millions of people throughout the world.

Joey Ramone, lead singer of the punk rock group, the Ramones, died of lymphoma yesterday. He was 49. The Ramones helped to define punk in the 1970s with songs like I Wanna be Sedated and Teenage Lobotomy.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on the ship suspected of carrying scores of child slaves from the West African country of Benin. Early today officials boarded the ship, but found no sign of the children.

In the first of a two reports on wildlife rehabilitators, Nancy Cohen reports on a Massachusetts woman who has raised hundreds of animals. Some wildlife experts are worried about her unusual techniques.

Shes a former staff writer for the Washington Post. Shes written a new memoir about divorce, Breaking Apart: Dreaming of Divorce (Hyperion). She writes about the slow unraveling of her 12 year marriage, and the impact on herself, her husband, and their two sons. She writes, "There are those who believe it is simple selfishness that leads people to divorce. For those of us who have lived it, its hard to see why anyone would rip out their veins for some immature or narcissistic desire to get what they want."

Scott reviews the news of the week with Hendrick Hertzberg, political columnist and senior editor of The New Yorker magazine.

Scott with some thoughts a parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.

NPR's Ivan Watson is in the African nation of Benin, where officials say they expect a ship carrying hundreds of child slaves to dock this week. But the vessel is reportedly adrift off the coast of West Africa and its exact location is unclear.

NPR's David D'Arcy reports on two Iranian movies opening in the U.S., both addressing a normally taboo topic in Middle Eastern culture: the status of women.