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Commentator Douglas Rushkoff says it's the investors themselves, not the dot-com innovators, who are to blame for the big losses they sustained when Internet companies flopped.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Rudy Penner, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute and co-author of Updating America's Social Contract, about how realistic the federal budget projections -- and therefore the Bush plans for tax cuts -- are. Penner was Director of the United States Congressional Budget Office from 1983 to 1987, and Chief Economist of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Gerald Ford. (5:00) Updating America's Social Contract, co-authored by Rudy Penner, is published by W.W. Norton, July 2000.

Commentator Dinesh D'Souza suggests growing inequality is a reflection of something that is right with the economy, rather than something wrong.

Hip Hop artist Sean "Puffy" Combs is on trial in New York on charges of gun possession and bribery. The charges stem from a shootout at a nightclub at the end of December 1999. Noah talks with Bob Meadows, correspondent for People Magazine, about the trial.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Sebastian Rotella, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times in Lima, Peru, about the four-month-old manhunt for Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former chief of the National Intelligence Service. He says that top officials fear Montesinos could still threaten the country's fragile democracy as long as he's still at large. Eighty investigators are looking for him.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Collected Stories, of Arthur C. Clarke, which contains more than 60 years of Clarke's short fiction. (2:00) The Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke is published by Tor Books.

In Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art has mounted an ad campaign on billboards around the city. The billboards are, in effect, labels for the settings in which they're located. Imagine the city as if it were a painting, and you'll get the idea. NPR's Andy Bowers reports.

Rare wild camels found in China and Mongolia may actually be a different species entirely from their domesticated cousins. Scientists never realized it was genetically different -- until they saw it drinking salt water. NPR's Chris Joyce has the story.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is experiencing a vast increase in killings by local police. Many of the dead are found to have been shot in the back.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Linda Wertheimer about today's testimony in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to blow up the U.S. embassies in east Africa in 1998.