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NPR's Religion Correspondent Duncan Moon reports on African-American churches around the country that are consolidating into large "mega-churches." The groups are channeling their combined wealth into an entrepreneurial spirit that fuels massive redevelopment projects such as constructing low-income housing, homeless shelters, day care centers, gyms, and job-training centers. The churches are wrestling with their missionary mandates to revitalize both individuals and the communities where they live.

President Bush flew to Quebec City today for the weekend Summit of the Americas. Every leader in the hemisphere except Fidel Castro will be there in an effort to promote free trade throughout North and South America and the Caribbean. Protesters have gathered in Quebec City to espouse "fair trade" instead of free trade and to promote a variety of other causes. Canadian authorities have erected a fence around the area where the summit will be held. There has been violence. Robert Siegel speaks to Jason Beaubien in Quebec City about the scene.

NPR's Joe Palca reports from Plum Island which, by law, is the only place in the United States allowed to handle Foot and Mouth Disease.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on a human rights trial underway in Guatemala that will test the independence of the country's judiciary system.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Noah Adams, a host of NPR's All Things Considered and author of a new book, Far Appalachia: Following the New River North. Adams spent a year travelling the course of the New River through North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, and writes of its people, history, and the $5 plane rides one old-timer offered over the rivers' deep gorge.

NPR's Ketzel Levine reports on the haggling over checkered lilies, striped bark maples, and double-primroses at the spring plant sale at Portland's Hoyt Arboretum. (3:44) Check out Talking Plants.

NPR's Susan Stamberg speaks with commentator and author Mary Sojourner about her new book of stories about women in the Arizona desert. The book is called Delicate: Stories of Light and Desire.

The only video of the Navy crew boarding the plane that took them off Hainan Island last night was on CNN. The video crew sent its pictures using a videophone together with a satellite phone powered by a car battery. Linda Wertheimer talks with Eason Jordan, chief news executive and newsgathering president for CNN in Atlanta.

Commentator Austin Bay calms any fears that America's recent spy scandals with Russia and China signal a return to the Cold War.

From member station WHYY, Fred Mogul reports on the debut of composer Stephen Paulus's Voices of Light by the New York Philharmonic. Based on the work of two little-known medieval poets, this new sacred choral piece draws more on a "spiritual element" than evangelical tradition.