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Noah Adams talks with Ian Fried, staff writer for CNet.com, about Mac OS X, the next generation Macintosh operating system that will go on sale March 24. Mac OS X is considered to be an advanced operating system, combining the power and openess of UNIX with the same ease of use and broad applications base upon which Macintosh has based its reputation.

From Chicago Public Radio, Jody Becker reports on a budget-cutting proposal by Loyola University Chicago to eliminate the Classical Studies department and spread its faculty and courses across other departments. Some professors and students, however, argue that the move would be a departure from the strong classical traditions of Jesuit education.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Don Gonyea about President Bush's economic speech today in Michigan, before the Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce. The president tried to make the case that quick action -- and especially a retroactive tax cut -- is what the sagging economy needs.

NPR's David Welna reports on the Democratic tax-cut proposal. Led by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, Democrats are pushing for a $300 rebate to every taxpayer (and a $600 rebate to every couple), using about $60 billion from the budget surplus. They are also proposing an immediate cut in the lowest tax rate. Their proposal would be separate from President Bush's signature $1.6 trillion tax-cut plan, and Republicans fear that such a proposal would take the momentum away from Mr. Bush's program.

Noah Adams talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about the resignation today of U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck. Dombeck had been instrumental in many of the Clinton administration reforms of forest policy, some of which are already being challenged by the Bush administration.

NPR's Kate Seelye in Amman reports Arab leaders opened summit talks in the Jordanian capital today. The Palestinian issue tops the agenda, but there are fears that continued tensions between Iraq and Kuwait could mar efforts to present a united Arab stand at the summit.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the case of a mentally retarded man facing a death sentence.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports many parents of autistic children are experimenting with treatments for autism and working to speed up research on the disorder.

You've heard of walking billboards, but how about dribbling billboards? Noah Adams talks with Dakkan Abbe, president of Fifty Rubies Marketing in New York. Abbe has come up with an idea to use basketball players as human billboards -- by placing temporary tattoos on their arms.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Skopje that the recent fighting in northwest Macedonia has highlighted the country's deep ethnic divisions. His report gives a sampling of opinion from both communities.