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From South Dakota, Charles Michael Ray reports on the seizure of 4-thousand industrial grade hemp plants from land on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Federal agents took the plants last month even though hemp was legalized by the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council as a cash crop. The council claims it's their sovereign right to grow hemp on tribal lands. Federal officials disagree.

Commentator Carol Wasserman's late husband once thought he discovered some ancient stones. Archeologists got excited. Then the truth came out.

The Kaiser Family Foundation releases a major survey on the views of parents, teachers, and students about sex education. As NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, there are some surprising findings -- notably that parents say they want schools to give their children more, not less, detailed information about such topics as AIDS, birth control, and sexual orientation.

Page two of the New York Times today contains an article acknowledging that the paper could have improved its coverage of the Wen Ho Lee case. Among its admissions: the Times says it made the mistake of taking on the tone of some of the government's positions in the investigation of Wen Ho Lee. Robert Siegel discusses the article with Sandy Padwe, Former Deputy Sports Editor for the New York Times, now a professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

With the growing acceptance in academia of different kinds of slang as legitimate forms of expression, it should come as no surprise that Amherst College is offering the first university-level course in Spanglish, a combination of Spanish and English. Ilan Stavans, the Amherst professor who's teaching the course, is also preparing a Spanglish dictionary. Pippin Ross reports.

Noah talks to Witold Rybczynski, the author of One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw. His book traces the screwdriver to medieval times, and highlights the contributions of inventors who have improved upon the tool, and the tools for making screws.

NPR's Mandelit del Barco reports from Los Angeles that organizers of a school voucher ballot measure in California, called Proposition 38, are offering free computers and free vacations to attract potential voters.

Host Mike Shuster talks to Stephen Quinn of CBC Radio News in Vancouver about the trial of former NHL player Marty McSorley. He is charged with assaulting Donald Brashear, another Hockey player during a nationally televised game in February. The attack left Brashear bleeding and unconscious on the ice with a severe concussion.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that although Russian forces continue to lose men in Chechnya nearly every day, the war rarely grabs headlines any more. Soldiers who have fought there complain the war is bogging down, but few Russians are demanding publicly that their government revise its strategy, seek a political settlement, or pull out of Chechnya.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr reasons that the American electorate's lack of interest in foreign affairs emboldens rogue leaders like Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein.