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NPR's Alex Van Oss reports Lawrence Small, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. His decisions to change the Smithsonian's current system have drawn sharp criticism from current staff as well as outsiders.

Legislators in North Carolina and throughout the Southeast and Midwest are proposing cuts in higher education to deal with their budget shortfalls. North Carolina has called for a 7 percent reduction in higher education. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports the proposal has met with student protest rallies and prompted administrators to say they will have to cut course selections and lay off faculty.

Maura Ferrelly of Georgia Public Radio reports that residents of Savannah, Georgia are divided over a statue that would commemorate slaves and their contribution to the city. The focus of the controversy is an inscription on the proposed slave memorial by poet Maya Angelou describing the horrors of the "middle passage," the voyage slaves took from Africa to the New World. Opponents say the inscription is divisive, others believe it is an accurate reflection of the voyage.

It costs a lot of money to rent a tuxedo for the prom. So Aaron Theisen has decided not to wear one. It's not that he can't swing the cost. He thinks the money can be better used. Theisen is donating the amount he'd otherwise spend on a tux to the Cystic Fibrosis foundation. And he's convinced some other kids to follow. Noah Adams talks with Aaron Theisen, a high school senior at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Yesterday's scheduled auto race -- the Firestone Firehawk 600 -- at the Texas Motor Speedway was postponed after it became clear that drivers practicing on the course were experiencing dizziness. Noah Adams talks with Dr. Steve Olvey, the medical director for Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc. in Miami, Florida about the course and the "G" forces involved.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Berlin on a controversial exhibit that is drawing huge crowds. The artist -- German anatomy professor Gunther Von Hagens -- mummifies human and animal organs and bodies by immersing them in a polymer solution. He then poses and displays the bodies. Von Hagens says his exhibit is intended to "enlighten" the public, and indeed many visitors see it as educational. The Roman Catholic Church, however, sees it as a perversion.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on preparations for what's expected to be another bad wildfire season in the West. But federal agencies are also getting the jump on fires by setting prescribed burns in some forests, in an effort to prevent them from burning out of control.

Commentator Stacy Horn has learned her mother has a terminal disease. She finds some comfort in an unlikely place -- an episode of television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, called The Body.

Monday marks the 100th day of President Bush's administration, and he's celebrating the occasion by inviting the entire Congress to lunch at the White House. NPR's David Welna reports. (5:30) Check out NPR News coverage of Bush's First 100 Days.

NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca recently visited Cambodia where it's estimated that 70 percent of the men smoke cigarettes, including Buddhist monks. Palca meets with a physician, whose work with Buddhist monks has led to smoking cessation for a large part of that population, and it's affecting local Cambodians as well.