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Wisconsin has established a 50-mile-per-hour nighttime speed limit for snowmobiles. Noah Adams talks with Karl Brooks, Snowmobile and ATV Administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Law Enforcement in Madison, Wis., about the state's reasons.

On this Valentine's Day, Commentator Ethan Herberman offers a love story from his trip to the Vancouver Zoo.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports on the aftermath of today's terrorist attack south of Tel Aviv. A Palestinian driver rammed his bus into a crowd of Israeli soldiers and civilians, leaving eight dead and at least 17 injured. It was the worst attack in Israel since the latest Palestinian uprising began last September.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports BellSouth plans to get out of its pay phone business by the end of next year. It's one of many indications that the coin-operated pay phone, first installed in 1889 in Connecticut, may have finally outlived its usefulness in today's wireless society.

Congress is examining the media's coverage of last November's election night results. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce invited executives from the Voter News Service and the major networks to speak at a hearing today. NPR's Lynn Neary is covering the hearing.

Linda Wertheimer talks with ABC correspondent Martha Raddatz, a former defense correspondent for NPR. Raddatz describes what it was like when she was allowed to sit at the controls of a U.S. Navy submarine.

NPR's Art Silverman confesses that he knows the man who brought on the downfall of pay telephones.

The Navy is defending its practice of inviting civilian visitors on warships to sit in control positions during exercises. Officials do admit that civilians may have been a distraction aboard the submarine U.S.S. Greeneville during the sub's fatal surfacing maneuver last Friday. The sub collided with a Japanese fishing trawler, sinking the ship. Nine people are still missing and presumed drowned in the incident off the coast of Hawaii. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that dozens of the nation's wealthiest citizens have signed a petition urging Congress not to repeal the estate tax.

Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the Navy's decision to convene a public court of inquiry to investigate the sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. submarine earlier this month. Nine passengers of the fishing boat are missing and presumed dead.