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Russia is seeing its highest infection and death rates since the start of the pandemic. It's beginning a controversial 10-day shutdown in an attempt to defeat the virus.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Johannesburg reports long-simmering differences within South Africa's ruling party burst into the open this week with allegations that three prominent members of the party were plotting to oust President Thabo Mbeki.

In Oberlin, Ohio, young children have found a public voice -- over the airwaves of WOBC, the local college radio station. Two college seniors produce I'm on the Stereo, a program featuring interviews with -- and sometimes hosted by -- kids ages 4 to 18. Linda Wertheimer speaks with the producers of the show, and some of their young radio stars. (8:00) I'm on the Stereo's Web site.

On the Media reporter Mike Pesca, on ESPN's acquisition of the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (BASS). Possibly not the most nefarious example of media energy, but an interesting event when ESPN both covers bass fishing events and owns the world's largest bass fishing organization. Bassmasters magazine has 600,000 subscribers and bass is a $28 million industry -- and visitors to ESPN Sports Zone restaurants will now be able to play a bass fishing video game.

Front-page pictures of a calf that survived the slaughter of cattle on a farm in southern England brought a public outcry and a change in government policy on foot-and-mouth disease. Britain has decided to stop killing healthy animals. NPR's Julie McCarthy in London talks with Linda Wertheimer.

According to new research published today in Science magazine, the amount of ozone pollution produced by a power generating plant depends on where it's located as well as on its emission levels. NPR's John Nielsen has the story.

NPR's Richard Knox reports that the debate over AIDS drugs to the developing world is expanding to Latin America. The nations of Central and South America are actually better poised to take advantage of lower prices, because health infrastructures are more advanced. But pharmaceutical giants are already aiming to stop further erosion of their prices. Last week in Quebec City, new anti-generic rules were proposed that would protect patents on brand name drugs in Central and South America.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr uses President Bush's hundred-day mark to discuss the administration's foreign policy with Robert Hunter, former ambassador to NATO, and Richard Perle, former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy.

The trial of Thomas Blanton Jr., a suspect in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black girls, continues. Scott speaks with NPR's Debbie Elliott.

Scott talks with Michael Dombeck, retired Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Mr. Dombeck stepped down at the end of March as the Bush administration reviewed the conservation policies he created under former President Clinton.