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Ninety years after a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York killed 146 workers, host Lisa Simeone talks with Dana Walden, the granddaughter of one survivor of the fire. Rose Freedman was the oldest living survivor of the fire until her death in Februrary. We hear clips of Freedman from a documentary series, The Living Century, which aired on PBS stations in December and January. More information about the documentary and Freedman can be found at http://www.thelivingcentury.com or http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire.

The fine art of "hacking," or elaborate practical joking, is a storied tradition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students at M.I.T. have perched a life-size police car on top of a domed building, wrapped an enormous jock strap around the athletic center, and performed a host of other diabolical pranks. Liane speaks with the school's Assistant Safety Officer, David Barber, who is in charge of dismantling these pranks the next day.

Pat Maginnis was out in front of the fight to legalize abortion in the 1960s, but few know her name and the lengths she went to.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on the Russian president's efforts to tighten Moscow's reins on regional governments. A year after Vladimir Putin's election, he has failed to follow through on his pledge to curb the power of Russia's governors.

The Peace Corps is experiencing a sudden jump in popularity in San Francisco thanks to a rash of Internet business failures. Former dot-com employees have helped double the number of people attending the Peace Corps' informational meetings in the area. Noah Adams talks with Dennis McMahon, public affairs specialist for the Peace Corps.

Commentator Marion Winik says today's low unemployment rate (relatively speaking) can mean bad service. Knowing you can always find another job means never having to say "Can I help you?"

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, just home from Havana, gives his first impressions of last week's Cuban-American conference held there analyzing the Bay of Pigs invasion.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the sharp increase in Americans reporting some Indian ancestry. In most of the states released by the Census Bureau so far, the number of people reporting they have a mix of Indian and some other ancestry is far out of proportion with those reporting they are Indian alone.

Noah Adams has a summary of some of the other news on today's program.

In early 19th-century America, dime museums were popular attractions. So named because admission cost $.10, these "museums" were eccentric collections of the bizarre: stuffed two-headed calves, petrified mummies, and dragon fossils. Some of it might have been real. Now two showmen in the old time tradition have opened the American Dime Museum in Baltimore. Harriet Baskas paid them a visit.

"My hope is that this piece will bring joy and inspiration to many people, just as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did for generations," sculptor Paul Day says.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today takes up the question of how much a jury should consider mental capacity of a defendant when deciding capital punishment cases. (8:32) Check out NPR News coverage of the Supreme Court.