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Commander Scott Waddle, skipper of the USS Greeneville, stunned a Navy court of inquiry in Hawaii today by taking the stand to testify without immunity. He is taking full responsibility for the sub's deadly collision with a Japanese fishing trawler. Waddle and his attorney had said he would not testify in the inquiry unless assured that his answers would not be used against him in a court martial or other criminal proceeding. But in a dramatic opening statement, Waddle said he wanted to be heard by the families of the nine killed in the Feb. 9 collision. Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Andy Bowers who's at the hearing in Pearl Harbor.

The Bush administration's decision to throw out new rules limiting arsenic in drinking water has angered environmentalists. Industries that emit arsenic and small water suppliers who would have had to rebuild purifying plants are relieved. As NPR's Larry Abramson reports, the new rules were proposed by the Clinton administration. Now the EPA says the present limit is good enough and that better health research is needed before a new standard can be written.

The United States Army will load its M-16 rifles with a new kind of ammunition -- bullets that are lead-free. Noah Adams talks with Michael Dette, chief of technology demonstration at the Army Environmental Center in Aberdeen, Maryland.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Tom Rosenstiel, Director of The Project for Excellence in Journalism. The group has released a new study that compares news coverage of the early days of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on the meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. This weekend's gathering was notably calmer than last year, when 10,000 protesters arrived to denounce the World Bank and try to shut the meetings down.

"My hope is that this piece will bring joy and inspiration to many people, just as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did for generations," sculptor Paul Day says.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Adam Hochberg about officials in North Carolina who said they were testing a pig suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease. But the U.S. Agriculture Department says the tests turned out be negative.

Andrew Kohut of the Pew Center for the People and the Press talks about reasons why the public isn't interested in campaign finance reform.

The behavior of the Braves' fans is scrutinized as the World Series goes to Atlanta, and fallout continues in the Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault case.

A report from Baltimore's annual Kinetic Sculpture Race, in which Lisa helped pedal a 14-and-a-half-foot pink poodle around the Inner Harbor. All vehicles in the race have to be human-powered, and they have to go on land and in water. The race provides hundreds of contestants and spectators an opportunity for ingenuity and zaniness.