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Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the battle for media attention between President Bush and former President Clinton. Clinton is busy dealing with attacks on his pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, while Bush is trying to gain approval for his tax-cut program.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on an exhibition of Steinway pianos that belonged to legendary pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn. The tour begins a month-long engagement in Cleveland today.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports Israeli troops have been demolishing Palestinian homes and razing fruit and olive groves near Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip in a bid to stop Palestinian attacks on the settlers. There have been loud complaints from human rights activists and others.

Jason Bezis, a law student at the University of California at Berkeley, has always harbored a special appreciation for our first president. He wants the nation to refer to our annual Februrary federal holiday by its given name: Washington's Birthday.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports on the challenge public schools in Chicago face in teaching a small population of American Indian students - with sensitivity and smartness.

William H. Masters - of Masters and Johnson - did much in his work to take the guilt and angst out of sex in American life. He died friday at the age of 85. NPR's John Burnett reports.

The Flint Hills in central Kansas are covered by tallgrass prairies that once spread across much of the Midwest. Now 11,000 acres of that land are being set aside as a national preserve. Matt Hackworth of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.

Host Bob Edwards shares listener comments in our weekly letters segment.

An estimated 15,000 convicts in nearly two dozen prisons in Brazil rioted yesterday in what appeared to be a well-coordinated effort. Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Martin Kaste about the latest developments.

David Kestenbaum reports on astronomers plans to deal with some future climate changes. A billion years from now the sun will swell and grow brighter as it burns more fuel. By nudging an asteroid into close passes with the earth, they say it would be possible to move our planet into a cooler, more distant orbit. That would buy us a five billion years to figure out what happens when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs us.