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NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports on poet Dana Gioia, who has just been named to lead the National Endowments for the Arts and the problems he will face in running the organization that has had its conservative critics.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with police Inspector Geoff Miles, in Warminster, England. This month, Inspector Miles delivered 22 letters to the town's repeat criminal offenders, asking them politely to suspend their criminal behavior.

NPR's Ned Wharton captures reactions to the shuttle Columbia disaster from visitors at the National Air & Space Museum.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and literary critic Paul Fussell about his new book Uniforms, Why We Are What We Wear, which documents the uniforms... both formal and informal... that we all wear each day.

Talk of the Nation/Science Friday host Ira Flatow joins host Steve Inskeep to talk about Columbia's scientific mission.

NPR's Eric Niiler reports on the investigation into the shuttle Columbia disaster.

The space shuttle Columbia shatters minutes before a planned landing in Florida Saturday morning. President Bush tells the nation: "Columbia is lost. There are no survivors." Listen to NPR News.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with musician Michael Feinstein and Ray Evans, half of the songwriting team Livingston and Evans, who wrote such classics as "Mona Lisa," "Que Sera Sera," and the theme to the television show "Mister Ed," about a new CD, The Livingston and Evans Songbook.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on Vaclav Havel's last day in office as president of the Czech Republic.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Joe Nocera, executive editor of Fortune magazine, about a recent court case against McDonald's, in which the plaintiff sued the fast food franchise for causing his obesity. The case was thrown out of court, but Nocera says this may not be the last lawsuit against a fast food restaurant, particularly if plaintiffs focus not on the addictive qualities of fast food, but on misleading advertising of the companies that sell it.