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NANCY POSTERO VISITS THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF BAHIA (bah-EE-ah) AND PROFILES THE "DR. RUTH" OF BRAZIL, A MAN WHO TALKS OPENLY ABOUT SEX AND CONTRACEPTION IN THAT CATHOLIC COUNTRY.

SIMON/SAILING: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BUDDY MELGES, A FORMER GOLD MEDAL OLYMPIC SAILOR AND A FORMER AMERICA'S CUP WINNER, ABOUT THE CHEVROLET STADIUM SAILING CHAMPIONSHIPS...SAILING RACES HELD IN INDOOR SWIMMING POOLS.

Masks will be required at all Illinois long-term care facilities, day cares and Pre-K-12 schools, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Wednesday amid a nationwide surge of COVID-19.

OKLAHOMA: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S WADE GOODWYN ABOUT THE MOOD IN PERRY, OKLAHOMA, WHERE TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH, ONE OF THE MEN ACCUSED OF BOMBING THE FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY.

Jacki speaks with NPR's Tom Goldman about prospects that the major league baseball season will begin on time tomorrow evening. Yesterday, a federal judge issued an injunction against the owners, prompting the players to offer to end their nearly eight-month old strike. Team owners will meet tomorrow to decide whether to go along with the players, or to lock them out.

Jacki speaks with NPR's David Welna in Port-au-Prince on the day that the United Nations assumed responsibility for peace and security in Haiti. Yesterday, President Clinton handed over peacekeeping authority to the U.N., six months after 20,000 American troops restored Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. Welna says security remains the biggest problem in Haiti, and he says some Haitians are impatient with the pace of reform.

Daniel talks to Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch, who have retranslated one of the books of the Bible, the Song of Songs. Traditionally read during the Jewish festival of Passover, it is a passionate love poem that takes place during the spring.

Danny talks to Reverend Kelly Clem of Piedmont, Alabama about the Easter service she conducted today amidst the ruins of tiny Goshen Methodist Church where a deadly tornado struck during Palm Sunday services a year ago. Reverend Clem describes coming to terms with sorrow, destruction, and the death of 20 parishoners, including her daughter, Hanna.

AS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BOMBING IN OKLAHOMA CITY CONTINUES TO UNFOLD, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR'S LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT NINA TOTENBERG ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENTS SO FAR.

Daniel talks with NPR's Cheryl Devall in Oklahoma City, Don Gonyea in Detroit and Martha Raddatz in Washington D.C. They discuss the memorial service held today at the Oklahoma State Fair Arena attended by many people including the Clintons and the Reverend Billy what happend today in the aftermath of the bombing in Oklahoma City.