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NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that stocks were down sharply on Wall Street today. The NASDAQ composite fell below 2000 for the first time in more than two years. The technology heavy index is down more than 60 percent from its high of a year ago. The blue chips that make up the Dow Industrial Index were also under heavy selling pressure.

In Santa Monica, California, the Legal Grind Cafe serves up a mean law-tte -- that's coffee with a side of legal advice. From member station KCRW, Eric Roy reports on this unusual effort that's providing affordable legal service to Angelinos.

Michigan Public Radio's Matt Shafer Powell reports from Detroit that many autoworkers are likely to make considerably less money in overtime earnings this year because of production cuts by the big three carmakers. Loss of overtime will mean $20,000 less for some workers, and that will hurt businesses that benefit from workers' non-essential spending.

Commentator Ev Ehrlich consults the pet.com sock puppet about what lies ahead for companies like the one he used to work for before it went bankrupt.

This week, Morning Edition airs essays from high school seniors written for their college applications. We begin with Richard Van Ornum of the Seven Hills School in Cincinnati, about his dream of flight. (3:19) Read the essays.

Animator Paul Fierlinger memorializes the dogs who shared his life in his new short film, Still Life With Animated Dogs. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Fierlinger about his life in communist (dog-unfriendly) Czechoslovakia. His film appears on public television stations later this week. For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/animateddogs/ or call 1-800-343-5540.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on how Republicans and Democrats raise campaign money. Because Republicans have success raising "hard" money in small donations, while Democrats do better with "soft" money from large donations, they would be affected differently by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, which the Senate is debating for the second week. (8:43) Check out NPR News coverage of Power, Money and Influence

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts. Congress starts debate this week on the federal budget.

Vaccination rates in much of rural America remain low. But there's one consistent holdout demographic: seniors, many of whom remember lining up eagerly as children to get the polio vaccine.

Thousands of livestock continue to be incinerated in Britain as agriculture officials confirm 18 new cases of the infectious disease. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Julie McCarthy in London about the political ramifications of the outbreak.