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NPR's Kenneth Walker reports on the disastrous soccer game in South Africa yesterday. Tens of thousands of fans over-packed a stadium in Johannesburg. Forty-three people died and some 250 were injured when a section of bleachers collapsed and the crowd stampeded to get away.

NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on a promising form of solar energy which uses a mirror, a glass pipe, and a kind of oil to produce electricity that costs about five cents a kilowatt- hour. It's being researched now, but the new budget from the Bush administration would cut its funding.

When composer George Gershwin died in July 1937 at age 38, doctors said the cause was brain cancer. But a new examination of Gershwin's autopsy slides has cast doubt on that diagnosis. Host Bob Edwards talks to pathologist Dr. Gregory Sloop, who says his findings show the tumor that killed Gershwin may have been benign and easily operable, had it been properly diagnosed.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the health of Dr. Ronald Shemanski, the resident physician for a group of 50 people at the South Pole. Shemanski has developed gall stones, and if he is not rescued soon, planes will be unable to reach him during the long Antarctic winter.

Commentator Danielle Crittenden says Laura Bush is just the kind of first lady she had in mind.

NPR's Ketzel Levine reports on the haggling over checkered lilies, striped bark maples, and double-primroses at the spring plant sale at Portland's Hoyt Arboretum. (3:44) Check out Talking Plants.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Lima on the trial of Lori Berenson, a New York woman accused of collaborating with a Peruvian guerilla organization. Five years ago, Berenson was sentenced to life in prison by a military court, but she's now being re-tried by civilian judges.

A coordinated series of worldwide parties commemorates the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on this date in 1961. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to George Whiteside, the organizer of the event, and Tony Watson, a deejay who will link the parties with the music he plays on the Internet.

Noah Adams notes the end of the Russian Mir spacecraft which fell to earth today. Chunks fell harmlessly into the Pacific Ocean.

Jack Dilenschneider died of COVID-19 in September at age 89. After started a small law firm in Ohio in the 1960s, he went south to defend civil rights activists and others trying peacefully to vote.

Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel read some of the letters received by listeners this week at All Things Considered. (4:00) Send e-mail to atc@npr.org. Send regular post to "Letters," All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., 20001.

Japan heads to the polls soon, and the ruling party is counting on low turnout from apathetic young voters and independents in order to hang onto its parliamentary majority.