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NPR's David Molpus reports on an alluring new book about getting the most out of your employees.

This weekend the 28th annual International Whistler's Competition is being held in Louisburg, North Carolina. Scott speaks with whistler extraordinaire Christopher Ullman.

A private aircraft carrying American missionaries was shot down by the Peruvian air force yesterday when they mistook it for a drug smuggling plane. Host Lisa Simeone talks to freelance reporter Sharon Stevenson in Lima, Peru.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports from Cotonou, the capital of Benin, on the practice of child slavery in West Africa.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on today's rally by the National Organization for Women. Called Emergency Action for Women's Lives, the rally is targeting Senators who have the power to appoint Supreme Court Justices, and marks the beginning of a four-year campaign.

In Uganda, President Yuwere Museveni has won re-election by a wide margin. There were some irregularities, but international observers say the overall voting was "correctly conducted." Museveni's opponent vowed to contest the results and said his followers might start a campaign of civil disobedience. Uganda is essentially a one party state. This election occurred within the so-called "no party revolutionary movement," but analysts say Uganda will have to move toward a multi-party system.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Nicholas McGegan, music director of the Gottingen Festival in Germany. He will conduct Gloria in Excelsis Deo, a composition for soprano and strings by George Frideric Handel, which has been rediscovered in a London library. Handel scholars in England and in this country have examined the work and believe that it is an authentic Handel piece and probably one of his earlier works.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Climate Global Change, about President Bush's reversal on tightening carbon dioxide emissions from power plants to prevent global warming. The president sent a letter yesterday to four Republican senators stating that he had decided not to seek reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. This is a reversal of a previous campaign pledge. The decision is a blow to environmentalists and a win for coal and oil industries. Claussen's organizations membership includes 33 major companies.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Dr. Lester Crawford, who is director of the Georgetown Center for Food and Nutrition Policy, about why it is so important to slaughter animals to combat foot-and-mouth disease.