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NPR's Jason Beaubien reports that many environmentalists are worried by some energy providers' plans to pay businesses to use generators when power demand is high. The generators are a heavy source of pollution.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Luanda on how the seemingly endless civil war in Angola has damaged the mental health of the people there. Most Angolan families have been touched by the four decades of violence. Having family members or friends killed, wounded, or tortured has left deep psychological scars. Children, especially, show the effects in their behavior.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu ponders the blooming of the American spring, when the flood of sensual emotions overwhelms the gloom of Wall Street. Wandering through Andrei's neighborhood, a pollster finds a woman who says she has great consumer confidence despite a trend against it.

There are signs that the epidemic of foot and mouth disease in Britain may be leveling off. But that doesn't mean the threat to U.S. livestock will go away. NPR's Joe Palca reports that the possibility of foot and mouth disease entering America is a constant one - and that recent events give cause for some optimism that the disease can be kept out.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Charlie Wilburn, a former member of the Cincinnati City Council and Jenny Laster, the spokesperson for a group of black political and religious leaders in Cincinnati; Richard Anderson, CEO, Northwest Airlines, and O.V. Delle-Femine, National Director, Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association; Attorney General John Ashcroft on the decision to allow a closed-circuit feed of the Timothy McVeigh execution to Oklahoma City; an announcement inside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, where 43 people died in a stampede last Wednesday; one of the fans who escaped the stampede; President George W. Bush; Lieutenant Shane Osborn, commander of the damaged US Navy spy plane that made an emergency landing on Hainan Island two weeks ago; Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Sun Yuxi; and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a government sponsored study showing that kids who spend more than 30 hours a week in daycare demonstrated more behavior problems than those who were cared for by their mother.

A federal jury in Tacoma, Wash., found that private prison contractor, the GEO Group, underpaid detainees who provided menial services in the facility

Andrew Haeg of Minnesota Public Radio reports on moves by 3M to recover from disappointing first quarter profits. Officials say they plan to cut about seven percent of their 75,000 person workforce.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports on the Navy's reprimand of the captain of the USS Greeneville. Cmdr. Scott Waddle was held "solely" at fault for the February collision with a Japanese fishing boat, and ordered to resign from the Navy.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu and girlfriend dine out on rabbit stew and turtle soup. Their meals cause them various pains.