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The Internet company that bought the naming rights to the Baltimore Ravens stadium is struggling to survive, and the team is searching for a new name. Some fans are saying it'll be a good change. Mark Hyman reports.

Commentator Diana Nyad says she longs to watch and listen to a game without the high-tech bells and whistles now common to most broadcasts.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on final approval by federal regulators of the merger between America Online and Time Warner. Last night, the Federal Communications Commission became the last agency to okay the merger but did impose conditions. Those conditions may not affect the way the new company does business, but they do set a precedent for federal regulation of the Internet.

Kate Seelye reports from Amman, Jordan, on the ongoing Arab Summit. Leaders are trying to overcome a schism in the Arab world created by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and to agree to support Palestinians in Israel.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports from Chicago on the city school board's new safety policy. It requires that students released from jail or juvenile detention, be evaluated to determine whether they should be allowed to return to their regular school or be sent to an alternative school. The school board says the policy intends to protect other students from violence. Akers visits the "Second Chance" alternative school in South Chicago.

Cy Musiker of member station KQED in San Francisco reports that public utility commission officials are set to approve a rate hike in electricity today. They hope to stunt usage by charging higher prices.

Part II in a week-long series of essays from prospective college students. Today we hear from Ambar Espinoza, of University High School in West Los Angeles, who tells about growing up in a single-parent family. Read the essays online.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Las Vegas on the attempts of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), to unionize Wal-Mart's nearly one million employees. But Wal-Mart's deep pockets and extremely high employee turnover rates are big obstacles for UFCW.

In early 19th-century America, dime museums were popular attractions. So named because admission cost $.10, these "museums" were eccentric collections of the bizarre: stuffed two-headed calves, petrified mummies, and dragon fossils. Some of it might have been real. Now two showmen in the old time tradition have opened the American Dime Museum in Baltimore. Harriet Baskas paid them a visit.

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports that the U.S. Supreme Court today takes up the question of how much a jury should consider mental capacity of a defendant when deciding capital punishment cases. (8:32) Check out NPR News coverage of the Supreme Court.