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Scott talks with Lee Sullivan, the Mayor of Panama City Beach Florida. Reporters, posing as representatives of Prince William, tried to convince the Mayor that the Prince was coming for a spring break visit. Fortunately Mr Sullivan discovered the ploy -- and turned the joke around.

Scott speaks with Phil Jackson, coach of the LA Lakers and former coach of the Chicago Bulls, about Michael Jordon, basketball, philosophy AND his new book, "More than a Game." (Seven Stories Press).

A report from Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race, in which Lisa helped pedal a 14-and-a-half-foot pink poodle around the Inner Harbor. All vehicles in the race have to be human-powered, and they have to go on land and in water. The race provides hundreds of contestants and spectators an opportunity for ingenuity and zaniness.

Lisa talks with longtime comedian George Carlin about his brainy, acerbic style, and his latest book Napalm and Silly Putty. (Hyperion Books: ISBN: 0786864133)

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new revelations about earth's beginnings, by scientists in Antarctica.

Liane talks with NPR's Michael Sullivan, who just visited the Vietnamese village of Thanh Phong, where former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey led a raid in 1969 in which civilians were killed, according to Kerrey, "by mistake." Kerrey spoke publicly about the raid for the first time this past week.

Istanbul has traditionally been a bridge between east and west. But now it's a bridge for immigrants - some illegal - hoping to enter the European Union. Dorian Jones meets Turkish officials, smugglers, and would be immigrants in this report.

NPR's Brenda Wilson reports from South Africa on the new challenges facing AIDS activists there, now that pharmaceutical companies have agreed to allow the sale of cheaper AIDS medications.

Civil rights pioneer Leon Sullivan died last week at the age of 78. The American Baptist minister devised the so-called Sullivan Principles, which helped bring down the apartheid regime in South Africa.

The McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Texas teems with new life every spring, with multiple varieties of birds and amphibians calling out for mates in a cacophonous roar. NPR's John Burnett submits this audio postcard, which features the sexual awakening of the Pig Frog.