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The record labels have begun to respond to the settlement offer Napster made public yesterday, an offer Napster claims it's had on the table for months. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

The spying charges against former FBI agent Robert Hanssen are among the most serious in American history. FBI Director Louis Freeh has called the acts of espionage on behalf of Russia "exceptionally grave." NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

When checking out of a Greek hotel, Commentator Jeffrey Tayler asked for a receipt. The hotel owner did not want to write one.

Religion scholar KAREN ARMSTRONG. The best-selling author of –The History of God,— and –The Battle for God,— has a new book about the life of Buddha. From North India, Sidhatta Gotama, renounced normal life, leaving his wife and child to live alone and attain enlightenment. He found it through his own experiences, did not rely on a supernatural God, and fought against the cult of personality that would turn him into a leader. Instead the Buddha taught his disciples to discover the truth within themselves. His teachings flourished in India for 1500 years and then spread to Tibet, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. ARMSTRONGs book –Buddha— is published by Penguin Lives. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Critic MILO MILES reviews a new 3-CD set –Demons and Angels— (Shanachie) collecting the recordings of blues guitarist Rev. Gary Davis.

It looks a little more like a fire truck than an S.U.V. DaimlerChrysler is planning to begin marketing a massive four wheel drive vehicle called the UNIMOG in the United States. The truck was made by Mercedes for fifty years. In 1999, Elizabeth Bailey and her friends drove from Chile to Texas in a Mercedes Unimog. She talks to Noah Adams about driving this enormous vehicle.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that Pope John Paul the Second formally inducted 44 prelates into the College of Cardinals today.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports Israel's Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon is continuing efforts to form a coalition government. Once in office, Sharon's first move may be to seek reforms to an electoral system that many Israelis say makes the country all but ungovernable.

Religion scholar Karen Armstrong. The best-selling author of The History of God, and The Battle for God, has a new book about the life of Buddha. From North India, Sidhatta Gotama, renounced normal life, leaving his wife and child to live alone and attain enlightenment. He found it through his own experiences, did not rely on a supernatural God, and fought against the cult of personality that would turn him into a leader. Instead the Buddha taught his disciples to discover the truth within themselves. His teachings flourished in India for 1500 years and then spread to Tibet, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Armstrong's book Buddha is published by Penguin Lives.

Robert Siegel speaks with Imam Kamad Ahmad Chebly. Chebly is an American Muslim cleric who is now in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, preparing for the Islamic pilgrimage, the Hajj. The Hajj officially begins tomorrow.