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Commentator Frank Deford says what women athletes choose to...or not to wear is fine with him.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a new study in this week's Journal of American Medicine on treating alcoholics. They study showed that giving patients a drug used to treat the side-effects of chemo-therapy may help them stay sober.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Dr. Enoch Gordis, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism about a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the study the drug ondansetron used to treat nausea in cancer patients can help alcoholics reduce their drinking significantly.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on a deeper meaning behind Guernica, the Basque town that was nearly destroyed during the Spanish civil war.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Michael Tsao, owner of the Kahiki Tiki Bar in Columbus, Ohio about the closing of the Tiki bar, which is on the National Historic Registry.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Chesterfield, Missouri on George W. Bush's campaign through the Midwest. The Texas Governor intended to focus on education with stops at two elementary schools, but he was questioned by reporters on the luke-warm reception voters have given his tax cut plan.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports from Boston on ethics complaints against the Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. Jane Swift may have violated the state's conflict-of-interest law by asking her staff to babysit and move her family to a new house. But some say Swift is being made a scapegoat by conservative groups, who would have applauded a male official for the same things for which she is being criticized.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that Russia's President Vladimir Putin has declared today a day of mourning in honor of the 118 men who perished when the Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea.

According to a recent study by the National Endowment for the Arts which found that jobs in the arts have decreased slightly even with the expanding economy. Artists still earn less than other professional occupations and moonlight 40% more often than other professionals.

Carolyn Johnsen, of Nebraska Public Radio reports from Omaha that residents of Boys Town vote today and tomorrow on whether to change the name of the famous refuge for young people. Half of the 33,000 residents are girls. Father Flannigan started his Boys' Home in 1913, and the name was changed to Boys Town in 1926. Girls were first admitted in 1979.