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- In southern New Jersey, Girl Scouts are staging a work slow-down as they sell their legendary cookies from door-to-door. The scouts are insisting they be allowed to keep 10 cents more per box, a demand that Girl Scout officials have rejected. Jacki speaks with Jan Snyder, the Girl Scout supervisor who organized the labor action, who says her superiors are nickle and diming her troops.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone with a report on juvenile stand-up comics.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including astronauts from the space shuttle Columbia; astronaut hannon Lucid; State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns; U.N. Ambassador and ecretary of State nominee Madeleine Albright; and Chairman of the Federal eserve Alan Greenspan.

- Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Bill Brzezinsky, the owner of a cafe in the dusty, economically depressed town of Roby, Texas, where a number of farmers pooled their resources and won the state lottery recently, to the tune of $46 million. Brzezinsky says the sudden infusion of wealth hasn't changed much in Roby. But he's offering a new millionaire's special on his menu.

Personal bankruptcies have increased sharply in the past year. A new study puts the increase at 26% from the year before...a development that many economists find surprising. Analysts say it's unusual for bankruptcy to be increasing without being accompanied by a recession. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.

formerly part of the Soviet Union, now an independent state. Uzbekistan is redefining its historical past. It now traces its origins to the 14th Century conqueror, Emir Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the insurance commissioner in Florida is threatening to revoke the license of the Prudential Insurance company to do business in his state. The commissioner is unhappy with a proposed settlement to reimburse thousands of customers who were sold unnecessary life insurance policies.

taking place in the breakaway Russian republic.

Six foreign aid workers, including four nurses, were shot at point-blank range and killed today at a Red Cross hospital south of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya. The identities of those responsible remain unknown; both the Russian and Chechen governments have condemned the attack.

Noah talks with Ken Auletta, who writes about the media for The New Yorker, about reports today that Michael Ovitz is stepping down as the number-two executive for the Walt Disney Company. Auletta says that Ovitz' apparent departure is not surprising to industry- watchers...there have been many tensions within the company in the last six months.