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From member station WRNI in Providence, Nate Di Meo reports that a Rhode Island judge is letting state officials pursue their lawsuit against companies that sold lead-based paint. They hope to set a national precedent by holding paint companies liable for health problems linked to lead in their product.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr hails the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic as one of the rare accomplishments of withholding American aid.

President Bush wants access to the crew of an EP3 U.S. Navy spy plane, which made an emergency landing in southern China after a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter jet.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the latest development in the race to provide music online. Four companies, including AOL and Real Networks, are working to form a service called Musicnet. This online subscription music service would compete directly with a project by Sony and Vivendi Universal.

Commentator Susan Katz Miller remarks on life as the child of an inter-faith marriage. Her mother is Protestant. Her father is Jewish.

Some United Nations attorneys working as defense attorneys for accused war criminals at the Rwandan war crimes tribunal in Tanzania are accused of bribing their clients. It is the accused criminal's duty to choose his or her own attorney. By offering gifts to the accused, attorneys can improve their chances of being chosen. Robert Siegel talks with Dileep Nair, Undersecretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services.

One of the advances heralded by the mapping of the human genome moves a step closer this week. Differences in the way people respond to particular drugs is determined by the presence or absence of certain genes. NPR's Richard Harris reports that the identification of one of the genes responsible should make it possible to predict in advance who will benefit from a certain treatment and who will not.

In the first interview of a series on money, NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on multi-billionaire George Soros -- a retired financier who is now out to save the world.

Robert Siegel talks about the American reconnaissance plane with James Bamford, author of two books about the National Security Agency: The Puzzle Palace, and the soon to be published Body of Secrets. (4:15) The Puzzle Palace is published by Viking Penguin. Body of Secrets is due for publication at the end of the month by Doubleday.

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