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Seth Berkeley is the president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. He argues that treating AIDS is only a part of the picture. Berkeley says that prevention -- in the form of a vaccine to stop the spread of AIDS -- should be just as important as treatment.

Noah Adams talks with Chris Desimio, a financial consultant and stock broker in Cincinnati, Ohio, about the technology companies that are still doing well despite the downturn of the stock market. He also talks about the companies which should not have gone down in value, but did, because of the psychology of the market right now.

NPR's Guy Raz in Ankara reports many Turks are questioning their government's dealings with the International Monetary Fund. They say the recent financial crisis would not have occurred if the government had refused to implement IMF-backed economic reforms.

Noah Adams talks with Jerry Molen, one of the producers of the film Schindler's List about Leopold Page -- a Holocaust survivor credited with making Oskar Schindler a household name. Leopold Page died Friday in Los Angeles at the age of 87.

NPR's Richard Knox reports from Boston on two new medical studies of AIDS treatment in the United States. In today's New England Journal of Medicine the studies conclude that AIDS drugs in the U.S. are cost effective, but many who need the drugs, are not getting them. Knox's report is a follow-up to the NPR series on AIDS drugs in developing nations that ran last week.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on the Bush administration's warning to Russia not to resume selling weapons to Iran. Secretary of State Colin Powell met yesterday with Sergay Ivanov, Secretary of Russia's Security Council. He said Russia is only selling 'defensive' weapons -- those may be considered 'destabilizing' by the U.S.

A senior Pacific Fleet captain who was on board the U.S. submarine Greeneville the day it sank a Japanese fishing trawler off the shore of Hawaii was back on the stand today in the Navy's court of inquiry into the incident. The captain was expected to say the civilians on board did not interfere with the sub's crew and procedures. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Andy Bowers, who is covering the trial.

Janet Heimlich reports that even though foot-and-mouth disease has not appeared in the United States since 1929, many livestock-producing states are telling ranchers to take precautions. Texas animal health officials are worried that the disease could be brought in by travelers, particularly in contaminated meat. They are telling ranchers to isolate new animals for a few days, disinfect the boots of visitors from abroad, and watch their animals for symptoms. Not all ranchers are paying attention.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr takes a look at the "stunning" Bush administration reversal on carbon dioxide emissions.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the blue chip Dow Jones industrial average has not declined at the same rapid clip as the battered Nasdaq during the recent stock downturn. But today the Dow fell very sharply and slipped below the 10,000 mark for the first time in five months, fresh evidence that pessimism about stocks is increasingly broad and deep.