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Noah Adams watches a game in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament with some of the members of the Bishop McNamara High School girl's basketball team -- at the home of their coach. For the team members, the game is instructive as well as entertaining. They see their future hopes and challenges in the game on TV.

NPR's Peter Kenyon sums up the week's events in the historic Senate campaign-finance reform debate, and looks ahead to possible roadblocks in the House or in the courts.

Robert Siegel talks to Congressman Roy Blunt of Missouri, the chief deputy to the majority Whip, about the campaign finance reform legislations in the House. The House leadership intends to send the campaign finance reform bill to a conference.

Noah Adams talks with Jovana Ilic in Belgrade. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested at his house on Friday, according to Serbian media. Ms. Ilic had been at the house before the arrest and provides some details of the arrest. She says Milosevic was reportedly transferred to a justice administration building in central Belgrade.

Host Renee Montagne talks with John Hooper, Berlin Bureau Chief of England's Guardian newspaper, about the train-load of nuclear waste returning to Germany this week. Many thousands of protesters did all they could to stop the train and its radioactive cargo, but German police helped it along.

NPR's Alex Chadwick explores the northern jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a Swiss biologist, in search of a mysterious, and perhaps entirely new species. This is the final piece in the Radio Expeditions series in Central Africa.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House that German Chancellor Schroeder is expected to question President Bush today on his decision to back away from the global warming treaty. Germany and other U.S. allies in Europe support the Kyoto Treaty, which the United States hasn't ratified.

Joshua Levs of member station WABE reports from Atlanta on day four of the Comair pilots strike. Pilots for Delta Airlines, who also threaten to strike, are watching the Comair negotiations carefully. The Comair and Delta pilots share an issue: they insist that pay and benefits for pilots at regional air carriers should be comparable to those at major airlines.

Commentator Jack Germond says that campaign finance reform might help improve the political process -- but legislation alone won't suffice.

Commentator Baxter Black jumps on horseback, ropes cattle and rides through a cactus jungle to see whether a jacket from a fancy clothing company cuts the cowboy's muster.