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A North Carolina hospital has found the antidote to the stereotypical bad food in its cafeteria. It's letting a Wendy's restaurant set up shop there, much to the consternation of some worried about the health effects of fast food. Brent Wolfe of member station WUNC in Chapel Hill reports.

Robert Siegel talks with Lin Yu-Fang, associate professor of International Studies Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan. They discuss the arms sale from the U.S. to Taiwan, and how it's being received in Taipei.

Students at Harvard rallied today to demand "a living wage" of $10.25 an hour for the university's lowest paid workers. Their week long sit-in has attracted support from the state's two Democratic senators, as well as national union officials and the NAACP. NPR's Philip Martin has a report.

A New Zealand air force plane returned safely today to Christchurch after retrieving four ill Americans and seven other U.S. staffers from a frigid research station near Antarctica's coast. A second perilous rescue mission to the bottom of the world is now underway. An eight-seat Twin Otter plane has landed at the South Pole to evacuate a sick American doctor. Antarctica's harsh, dark winter conditions usually preclude flights in or out. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Sotheby's auction house has 151 items of Chinese propaganda art for sale from the era of Mao Tse-tung. (2:00) Sotheby's Web site.

Robert Siegel speaks with Latvian President Vaira Vike Freiberga whose country is facing a language question of its own. For many years, Latvia was a part of the Soviet Union and Russian became an official language. No longer, says the president, who is seeking to make fluency in Latvian a mandatory requirement for citizens. The Latvian leader is in Washington this week for talks with President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Among the items on the agenda: possible Latvian membership in NATO.

NPR's Nina Totenberg looks at two 5-4 decisions released by the Supreme Court today. One says police may arrest and jail someone for a minor offense, even when the punishment is no more than a fine. The case involved a woman whose car was pulled over because she and her children were not wearing seat belts. The other decision rejected a lawsuit by a woman who sued Alabama for not allowing her to take her driver's test in Spanish. The justices said the statute in question does not provide for an individual to sue a state for the type of discrimination she alleged.

Commentator Belle Waring says choosing a pet from an animal shelter can be a roll of the dice.

Managing a Major League baseball team has never been easy. And with skyrocketing salaries and multi-year contracts, star players can often exert more control over the team than the manager can. In part two of our series, The Changing Face of Sports and Society, NPR's Debbie Elliott examines how White Sox Manager Jerry Manuel keeps his players focused on what's best for the team.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation in Washington. They discuss the daring airlift of a sick American doctor, who was working at a research station at the South Pole. A small plane carried Dr. Ronald Shemenski across Antarctica to a British research center near the coast of the continent. After resting overnight, the crew will take Dr. Shemenski to Chile today where he'll be treated for gall stones.