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NPR's John McChesney examines an online service that's trying to succeed where Napster failed. FullAudio wants to buy the rights from record companies to resell music over the Internet. FullAudio would then give consumers the ability to download the music to their computer, stereo, or even their car radio, and play it until their subscription runs out.

NPR's David Welna reports on the visit by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to Capitol Hill to argue for swift action on President Bush's tax cut. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, O'Neill's appearance is the opening salvo for the administration's key economic initiative.

Tonight, the finals are taking place at the nation's most prestigious dog show: The Westminster Kennel Club Competition. It's happening at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Noah Adams talks to Geraldine Fessalino, Director of Housekeeping for the New York Hotel Pennsylvania, where nine hundred rooms have been reserved for the pets and their owners.

Linda talks with Jane Nober, Special Council with The Council on Foundations in Washington, D.C., about false organizations set up just to take people's money.

Commentator Owen Gleiberman doesn't like the so-called "director's cuts" of movies that are increasingly available on DVDs.

Commentator Jim Sollisch explains what people REALLY mean when they concoct too-good-to-be-true self-portraits in personal ads.

Sports commentator Frank Deford talks about the increasing spectacle of national signing day, the day when blue-chip high school football and basketball players choose their college affiliation.

Crittenden is a former reporter for The New York Times. Shes the author of the new book The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued. In the book, Crittenden writes about the cost to mothers when their work is unrecognized and undervalued. For instance, because child care is not counted as labor, caregivers receive no Social Security credits, and as a result they lose out on retirement income. Crittenden spent five years research on her book talking to economists, socicologists, and to mothers.

Cantor Philip Sherman is a mohel who performs the Jewish rite of circumcision on the eighth day of a baby boys life. In his twenty-two year career hes performed about nine thousand. His grandfather was also a mohel.

Josephson tells us some of his favorite mohel jokes.