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Creator and executive producer of the HBO hit series The Sopranos, David Chase. The show has just begun its 3rd season. Rebroadcast from June 22, 2000.

As the global economy knits countries closer together, it becomes easier for diseases to spread through states, over borders and across oceans doing serious damage to vulnerable populations. American RadioWorks and NPR News present a series on this lethal side effect of globalization.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the latest findings by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights regarding the voting problems that occurred in Florida during last year's election. The Commission announced that it would be monitoring the Florida legislature to see what reforms come out of Tallahassee. In the meantime, there will be hearings held in Florida this spring to see if any change has been implemented since last fall's debacle.

Film critic Henry Sheehan reviews 15 Minutes starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Burns, and Kelsey Grammer.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on vigilante justice in southeastern Nigeria. A provincial government has hired a machete-toting militia called "The Bakassi Boys" to deal with a spate of armed robberies. The results have been bloody but immensely popular, and the crime rate has dropped sharply.

On Monday evening, 10 year old Rodney McAllister went to a city park across from his home in St. Louis, Mo. The next morning he was found under a pine tree, mauled to death by stray dogs. McAllister's mother, Gladys Loman, was charged with a misdemeanor for endagering the welfare of a child. Animal control officers rounded up nine stray dogs by late Tuesday. Robert Siegel talks with Greg Jonsson, a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, about the mauling case and what animal control officials are doing to prevent a similar attack.

He currently stars as Christopher in The Sopranos and has written some episodes. Imperioli also appeared in five Spike Lee films, and starred in, co-wrote and executive produced Lee's film Summer of Sam. Imperioli also appeared in the films Goodfellas, Malcolm X, Clockers, and Household Saints. (REBROADCAST from 3

Before her role as the harping mother on The Sopranos, she was best known for her recurring roll as Mrs. Pynchon on the TV series Lou Grant. Marchand's film credits included Jefferson in Paris, The Naked Gun, and The Bostonians. She died last year. Rebroadcast from March 18, 1999.

People waiting for the bus in Madison, Wis., talk about their job security.

Robert Siegel talks with Robert Matthews, a physicist at Aston University in Birmingham, England and the world's foremost expert on Murphy's Law. Matthews is part of a six-week experiment across Britain that begins today. Up to 150,000 primary and secondary school pupils are dropping buttered toast. If the results prove that the toast is more likely to fall butter-side down, Murphy's law will be validated.