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Bolivia has the highest infant mortality in South America, far worse than its neighbors. NPR's Joe Palca explores the reasons for this depressing statistic, and also looks into what both governmental and non-governmental organizations are doing to address the problem.

Robert Siegel talks with Aleksa Djilas, historian and political commentator in Belgrade, about the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic.

Robert Siegel talks to Matt Sheehan, editor in chief of The Diamondback, the University of Maryland student newspaper, about violence on campus after Maryland's basketball team lost to Duke in the NCAA Final Four this past weekend.

Secretary of State Colin Powell has decided the United States should continue financial aid to Yugoslavia. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports $50 million -- the second half of a U.S. aid package -- was contingent upon Yugoslavia's showing cooperation with the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade that Serbian authorities have filed new charges against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic -- who is now in a small, sparse jail cell.

Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain. Her newest book is her first novel called My Dream of You. Her critically acclaimed 1998 memoir, Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman was on the New York Times bestseller list. She is also a columnist for The Irish Times; she has been at the paper for over 12 years.

Jeff Lunden reports from New York on the opening of Stones in His Pockets, a play about celebrity worship in a small Irish town, now getting enormous buzz on Broadway. It stars just two actors who together play fifteen parts on a nearly-bare stage. The playwright says she wouldn't have gotten it staged unless she wrote it that way.

Mark Moran of member station KJZZ in Phoenix reports that the Tucson Air Force Base is testing "Giant Voice:" a loudspeaker that can project for up to six miles. The residents nearby hate it.

Sports commentator John Feinstein talks to host Bob Edwards about last night's NCAA championship basketball game between Duke and Arizona State.

NPR's David Kestenbaum reports that a new study shows how shifts in the world's climates will affect outbreaks of infectious diseases such as malaria. But even the study's own researchers say that despite advanced technology, it's still very difficult to make detailed, accurate predictions in this field.