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It's National TV Turnoff Week. Washington, D.C., fifth grader, Lidia Jean Kott talks about what it's like to live without television all 52 weeks of the year.

Host Bob Edwards talks with reporter Carlotta Gall of The New York Times. They discuss the returns from Sunday's elections in Montenegro, which could move the region toward separation from Serbia.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the sinking sales figures for personal computers.

Medical labs and drive-in banks are still using the pneumatic tube, whose heyday was back in the 19th century when the device was a means of sending messages from building to building. The tube made a comeback in the 1970's when engineers figured out how to make it gentle enough for hospitals to transport blood samples. Joel Obermayer reports from Danville, Pennsylvania.

NPR's David Welna reports from Orange, Texas, where a dozen residents took part in a role-playing exercise as a congressional committee trying to divvy up the federal budget. The group concluded that the $1.6 trillion tax cut proposed by President George Bush wasn't a prudent idea until the national debt is paid off.

Lisa interviews author Diane McWhorter about her new book Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama; the Climactic Battle of the Civil rights Movement. McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, the child of a privileged white family. When the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing happened in 1963, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement, McWhorter recalls that she and her family were barely aware of it.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the goal-setting agreement signed at the Summit of the Americas this past weekend. Thousands of protesters outside the conference did not seem to distract the leaders of western hemisphere nations from planning a "Free Trade Area of the Americas" that would expand NAFTA to include 34 countries.

Host Bob Edwards talks with international financial expert and author Randy Epping, about the events over the weekend at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec.

Lisa visits with three teenagers in Vienna, Virginia, to learn about the ingenious uses to which they're putting Napster, the on-line music-swapping service. As they tell it, Napster is about more than just a free ride.

NPR's movie critic Bob Mondello reviews the new film by German-born director Dominick Moll, a comic thriller called With a Friend Like Harry.