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Daniel talks with NPR's Maria Hinojosa, who covered the economic and refugee crises in Cuba six months ago and returned to the island recently to find significant changes in both Cuba's economy and mood. State-sanctioned farmers' markets are flourishing, food is plentiful and Cubans appear upbeat, Hinojosa says. But with the Castro dictatorship still in power, these changes have no legal protection.

Jacki talks to NPR's Brian Naylor about the lastest budget cuts in Congress. Last week House appropriations subcomittes cut $7.2 billion from non-military domestic programs such as low income housing and nutritional programs for pregnant women and children.

FROM LONDON, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LAST NIGHT'S RULING BY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT STAYED THE SCHEDULED EXECUTION OF CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST CLARENCE LACKEY IS SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH BAR WHICH, THIS WEEK, FILED A FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF ON HIS BEHALF.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DR. DAVID LONG, HISTORIAN AND PROFESSOR OF LAW AND HISTORY AT MANATEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN BRADENTON, FLORIDA, ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK "THE JEWEL OF LIBERTY," PUBLISHED BY STACKPOLE BOOKS. THIS WORK ABOUT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1864 IS BEING CALLED THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK WRITTEN ABOUT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN MANY YEARS. NPR'S BOB EDWARDS READS FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

Jacki speaks with Professor Dirk Vandewalle of Dartmouth College..and Algerian artist TAhar Bouqeterie about the recent violence in Algeria. More than 30-thousand people have been killed in that conflict.

ECONOMY: SCOTT SIMON AND JOSEPH NOCERA (no-SER-ah), A BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, TALK ABOUT THE SALARIES OF MANY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, AND HOW THEY REMAIN HIGH WHILE THEIR COMPANIES REPORT LOSES AND LAY OFF WORKERS.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that researchers now say the moon, which already affects so much of our lives, actually warms the temperature here on earth. And while earthlings may not notice this slight distinction - scientists have certaintly enjoyed looking into it.

Jacki talks with two University of Maryland students. Both Black and both the recipients of scholarships that target African American students. While both are benefit from the scholarship, they sharply disagree on the merit of such programs and on affirmative action programs in general.

Jacki talks with Iowa Congressman Jim Leach. Leach has spent much of his career tackling issues and escaping political pratfalls. Now the Congressman has been inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Jacki recently visited the Japanese music group the Kodo Drummers as they prepared for a concert at the Kennedy Center. We have this sound moment of the drummers.