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The McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Texas teems with new life every spring, with multiple varieties of birds and amphibians calling out for mates in a cacophonous roar. NPR's John Burnett submits this audio postcard, which features the sexual awakening of the Pig Frog.

Commentator Frank Deford isn't sure members of the clergy belong in the locker room. Deford alleges that many team chaplains are using the guise of Christianity to cozy up to their favorite sports celebrities.

From Member station WKSU Mark Urycki reports on a new movie set in Australia entitled, The Dish. It's the first feature film to explore Australia's role in the Apollo 11 mission. In the tiny town of Parkes stands a 210 foot radio telescope that helped to capture the weak TV images Apollo 11 sent from the moon.

A federal grand jury in New York today indicted A. Alfred Taubman, former chairman of Sotheby's Holdings, and Anthony J. Tennant, former chairman of Christie's International, for fixing the commissions they charged at auctions between 1993 and 1999. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg about changes coming in the Supreme Court, including the possible retirement of Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

It has been a week of campaign promise fulfillment for President Bush. He has struck a deal with Congress regarding a budget for the next fiscal year and announced his plans to proceed with a high-tech defense system to protect the U.S. from ballistic missiles. And today he named the members of a high-level commission who will make recommendations for reforming the Social Security system. The new panel will be dominated by members who are interested in allowing at least some Social Security contributions to be invested privately. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Robert Blendon, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, about the public's attitudes about social security. Blendon has conducted surveys for the Kaiser Family Foundation on the issue.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on a new study which finds that a drug commonly used to treat heart failure is much less effective in black patients than it is in whites. The study suggests that doctors need to be more vigilant when treating black patients with heart failure. And it also has raised questions about when it is appropriate to focus on race in medical research.

DNA evidence may exonerate four Chicago men convicted 13 years ago of the rape and murder of a medical student. New analysis appears to show they could not have committed the rape. Robert Siegel talks with Steve Mills, staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Neuroscientists in California have been able to take cells from human brains hours after death and coax some of the cells to continue dividing in the laboratory. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, for now, the result is of limited practical value, but it could pave the way for generating nerve tissue to treat human disease.

As All Things Considered celebrates its 30th anniversary, we're hearing a series of special reports on other things that are 30 years old. Today, host Linda Wertheimer examines the war on cancer, which was initiated by President Richard Nixon in May, 1971, when he pledged $100 million to cancer research. Linda Wertheimer spends time with five doctors who have been involved in cancer research and treatment for the past 30 years. We meet a parent who lost her child to the disease in the 1970s and a family whose 9 year old is undergoing treatment right now.

It's National TV Turnoff Week. Washington, D.C., fifth grader, Lidia Jean Kott talks about what it's like to live without television all 52 weeks of the year.