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Robert Siegel speaks with Brock Meeks, Washington correspondent for WIRED Magazine and HotWired, about the computer service America Online. At first a very successful on-line service, AOL is finding the Internet itself a source of competition. AOL offers members an environment of online services including access to the Internet but the Internet and its panoply of service providers is overshadowing AOL.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has canceled three votes on President Bush's blueprint for overhauling the Clean Air Act, including two postponements last week. The delays signal that the White House is having trouble selling its vision for cleaning up old coal-fired power plants.

In the complaint, the dancers accused Lizzo of sexual harassment and said she created a hostile work environment.

Despite the lure of potentially big money, the Navajo Nation has banned uranium mining on its reservation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In part, the decision reflects deep Navajo concerns about how past mining activities have damaged health and the environment.

Linda talks to S.L. Price, senior writer at Sports Illustrated, about Cuban baseball player Andy Morales, who has repeatedly tried to defect from Cuba to the United States. Morales is currently being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, after successfully crossing the Florida Strait to an island off Key West.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that Exxon Mobil Corporation has been ordered to pay the state of Alabama nearly 3-and-a-half billion dollars in punitive damages. An Alabama circuit court jury found the company had deliberately underpaid on its natural gas leases off the Alabama coast.

Fats Domino, a founding father of rock-and-roll, has died at age 89. His daughter said that he died Tuesday of natural causes.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including natural sound of the bomb explosion at Centennial Olympic ark in Atlanta; FBI Special Agent Woody Johnson; Jason Sanders, an eyewitness o the explosion; Jake Sanders, another eyewitnes; Andrew Young, Co-Chairman of tlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and President Bill Clinton.

NPR's Pam Fessler looks at the debate surrounding President Bush's plan to allocate federal funds to community service organizations. Because of the religious nature of many of these organizations, some people are concerned that President Bush's proposal might violate constitutional provisions for the separation between church and state.

For decades we've been told to "reduce, recycle and reuse" to help the environment. But some experts say when it comes to plastic, we might want to hold off reusing plastic food packaging.