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From Los Angeles, Johanna Cooper reports on the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The group has long invited community members to join them on stage. For her latest project, Hallelujah, Lerman brought in people from churches, synagogues and Buddhist temples to give praise and celebrate as part of the dance.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris about the latest discoveries in gene research, announced this week by two competing scientific teams. Scientists have discovered that human beings have fewer genes than first thought -- only about twice as many as worms.

Linda Wertheimer interviews the authors of two new thrillers: Michael Connelly, about A Darkness More Than Night, and Evan Hunter, about his collaboration with Ed McBain to write Candyland: A Novel in Two Parts. Connelly's book takes main characters from other novels -- an LAPD detective and a retired FBI investigator -- and pits them against one another. Hunter, an acclaimed author who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, wrote the first half of Candyland, then looked to his alter-ego for the second half, when it becomes more of a murder mystery. (7:45) A Darkness More Than Night, by Michael Connelly, is published by Little, Brown, ISBN # 0-316-15407-5. Candyland, by Evan Hunter and Ed McBain is published by Simon and Schuster, ISBN # 0-7432-1316-5.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon on the US and British attacks on five Iraqi targets.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the staffing crisis looming over the federal bureaucracy because of the push in recent years to downsize.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports a significant decline in the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, the number of arrests at the busiest illegal border crossing, at Douglas, Ariz., is down 40-percent in the first six weeks of this year, compared to the same period last year.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Oscar nominated art film Pollock, directed and produced by — and starring — Ed Harris. It took him a decade to finish the movie. Mondello says it was worth it.

Designing a mission that could last longer than 50 years presents unusual challenges that have nothing to do with technology.

While US and British planes were bombing targets in Iraq, President Bush was in Mexico for his first foreign visit. Melinda speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea, who is with the President.

Melinda talks with Krister Fardig, a sophomore at Brown University. Mr. Fardig is one of a group of players of a game, Sanctum, who bought it after the company went out of business.