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Commentator Douglas Rushkoff says it's the investors themselves, not the dot-com innovators, who are to blame for the big losses they sustained when Internet companies flopped.

Rare wild camels found in China and Mongolia may actually be a different species entirely from their domesticated cousins. Scientists never realized it was genetically different -- until they saw it drinking salt water. NPR's Chris Joyce has the story.

Commentator Dinesh D'Souza suggests growing inequality is a reflection of something that is right with the economy, rather than something wrong.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Sebastian Rotella, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times in Lima, Peru, about the four-month-old manhunt for Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former chief of the National Intelligence Service. He says that top officials fear Montesinos could still threaten the country's fragile democracy as long as he's still at large. Eighty investigators are looking for him.

The Colombian soap opera Betty La Fea, or Betty the Ugly,, has become a nightly hit all over Latin America. It features a heroine with buck teeth, dirty hair and a very bad wardrobe. Reporter Steven Dudley visits the show's set in Bogota to find out why Betty is popular.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Joseph Kabila, the newly inaugurated President of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kabila unexpectedly assumed the leadership of war-torn Congo last month when his father, Congolese President Laurent Kabila, was assassinated.

Janet Heimlich reports on a new bill being debated in the Texas Senate that would make it easier for prisoners to get DNA tests that could prove their innocence.

Amy Cordaro caters to women undergoing chemotherapy: she sells and styles wigs for them at her shop Amy of Denmark, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Cancer patients tell host Lisa Simeone they feel well-tended and soothed under Amy's guidance.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on President Bush's appearance at the Democratic legislative retreat in Pennsylvania yesterday. Mr. Bush continued his attempt to charm the opposition. Though some members seemed charmed, he faced tough questions from Democrats, many of whom remain skeptical of finding common legislative ground with the new president.

Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston reports on Roman Totenberg, the 90-year-old concert violinist whose decades in music are now bridging the gap between two very diverse musical periods. A concert tonight in Boston will honor Totenberg on his birthday. (Roman Totenberg is the father of NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg).