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Efforts to make crossing streets safer for the seeing-impaired in Baltimore, Maryland have upset some advocates for the blind. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Two lawsuits by current and former employees of the Christian Coalition allege a Jim Crow-like working environment at the organization's Washington headquarter. As NPR's Phillip Martin reports, it's the latest hurdle for an organization that's been in turmoil for the last few years.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reviews the career of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslavian President who was arrested this morning at his home in Belgrade. Milosevic surrendered peacefully after an armed standoff Saturday with police. He faces charges of corruption and abuse of power during his long tenure.

President Bush is pushing for annual testing for public school students from third to eighth grade. But parents, teachers, state education officials and testers are opposed. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr reviews the week's news.

Scott returns from a safari in Africa, and tells about it.

Scott talks with reporter Geroge Anastasia of the Philadelphia Enquirer about the trial of reputed Mob boss "Skinny Joey" Merlino of the Philadelphia Mob.

In the last three months since President Bush took office, he's made some decisions on environmental policy that have upset environmentalists but which the President characterizes as necessities during the country's energy crisis. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Christopher Joyce about the President's environmental policy.

Despite President Bush's decision earlier this week not to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, some European countries say they still plan to support the agreement. NPR's Alison Aubrey reports.

Early this morning, Yugoslavian police tried to present an arrest warrant to former leader Slobodan Milosevic. But Milosevic refuses to come out of his villa in Belgrade and has been quoted as saying he won't be taken alive. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli in Belgrade about the standoff between police and Milosevic.

In the first of an occasional series, host Lisa Simeone and word guru Richard Lederer disect the language pet peeves of, like, listeners.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Vermont poet David Budbill, who reads from his book, Moment To Moment: Poems Of A Mountain Recluse. Budbill's "recluse" is Judevine Mountain, named after the mountain on which Budbill lives. (www.coppercanyonpress.or