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Massachusetts will make history Monday, when it becomes the first state in the nation to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry. Couples formed a line Sunday night at the City Hall building in Cambridge, Mass., waiting for one minute past midnight, when clerks will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who worked in the Middle East. They discuss potential future terrorist attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. Over the weekend, armed militiamen killed 22 workers at a compound in the Saudi city of Khobar. Baer is the author of upcoming book Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude.

Arto Lindsay has been making music since the late 1970s in New York City with the band DNA was shrill and aggressive. These days, Lindsay makes Brazilian music with subtlety and grace.

Alan Cheuse reviews Symptomatic, by Danzy Senna, a novel about a young California woman of mixed race who falls into a psychic tug of war with a colleague in New York City. It is published by Riverhead Books.

In the second-part of a National Geographic Radio Expedition to the Sea of Cortez, NPR's John McChesney reports on the observations biologists have made along the coast, near the City of La Paz.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR's Don Gonyea about President Bush's visit to Italy. On Friday, the president met with Pope John Paul II in Vatican City, and later with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a strong supporter of the Bush administration's policy on terrorism and Iraq.

The International AIDS Conference begins today in Bangkok, Thailand. NPR's Richard Knox visited a hospice that treats AIDS patients in the city. Located in a Buddhist temple, it's the largest AIDS sanctuary in Thailand. There, he met one patient who was left abandoned at the temple by his relatives.

Poet Billy Collins shares memories of his father's puckish spirit as part of the StoryCorps national oral history project. Hear Collins' conversation with friend Nancy Cobb, recorded in a booth at New York City's Grand Central Terminal.

Alex Chadwick speaks with reporter Charles Duhigg of The Los Angeles Times, who has been joining patrols by American troops in Najaf and other cities that have been centers of conflict between U.S.-led forces and fighters loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

A gunbattle has been ongoing in the city of Jenin between Israeli troops and militants.