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The deadline to enroll in the new Medicare drug benefit is March 15 -- but some lawmakers have asked to push that date back, because the plan's rules are too confusing for seniors. President Bush, however, vows there will be no delay. Julie Rovner reports on what's behind the president's decision.

The big buzz for this year's summer movie season is Snakes on a Plane. The action flick, starring Samuel L. Jackson, has a plot that needs no further explaining than the title. But for Monty Coles, an amateur pilot in West Virginia, the title became a reality when a four-and-a-half-foot snake hitched a ride in his small plane.

A jury convicts former Gov. George Ryan of steering millions of dollars in state leases and contracts to political insiders, lying to federal agents and tax fraud. The Republican is the third former Illinois governor in three decades to be convicted of federal felony charges.

In 1981, most Americans were oblivious to an emerging sickness that was overtaking gays. Throughout the spring and summer that year, a mystery would slowly unfold. It was the beginning of an epidemic of biblical proportions that has left no part of the world untouched.

Scott Simon talks books with the world's best-read cabbie, London's own Will Grozier. Included on the list: works of non-fiction by James Kynge on China and A.A. Gill on England, and The Divide, by novelist Nicholas Evans.

A lot of people think of a marathon as the ultimate long distance race with its official distance of 26.2 miles. But that pales in comparison to a man who has run 350 miles -- in one race -- without stopping. Tom Goldman has a profile on Ultra-Marathoner Dean Karnazes.

Bill Henderson, author of Simple Gifts: Great Hymns: One Man's Search for Grace talks about his love of classic hymns and their spiritual significance.

A Palestinian suicide bomber strikes at a fast-food restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel. The attack kills the bomber and nine others, wounding dozens. Israel is marking the Passover holiday. It is the first suicide attack since Hamas took control of the Palestinian government.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and representatives of other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, agree on a plan to offer Iran incentives for stopping its nuclear enrichment plans. For the time being, thoughts of punitive action against Iran are shelved.

Former Gov. Paul LePage is in a close race with Maine's sitting governor, Democrat Janet Mills. Maine's GOP is uniting around the fall of Roe and has a motivated base.