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The United Nations begins a special session on AIDS Monday in New York. The conference will call for governments and NGOs to contribute $10 billion annually to AIDS treatment and prevention programs. Lisa Simeone speaks with Thoraya Obaid, head of the U.N. Population Fund, about cultural considerations that come into play when dealing with reproductive and sexual activity.

With his first hit, Berry began a career that would reinvent rock 'n' roll with each new song.

NPR's Liane Hansen is joined by two members of President Clinton''s seven member advisory board on race, attorney Angela Oh and former Mississippi Gov. William Winter. This past week, members of the board ventured outside Washington to Phoenix, Arizona, where they heard from residents in an open forum.

When Jacqui Frazier and Laila Ali enter the boxing ring tomorrow night, they will revive a rivalry inherited from their fathers -- legendary boxers Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. But the women are fighters in their own right. The Kitchen Sisters -- producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson -- begin their two-part series on the fight with a profile of Jacqui Frazier. (8:47

All Things Considered book reviewer Alan Cheuse's picks list of summer books.

Scott talks to historian Richard Minear about some newly discovered political cartoons of Dr. Seuss from the early 1940's. Minear's book is called Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War Two Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel.

Comic Judy Carter explores how American stand-up and situation comedy has changed in the last few years.

Dizzy Gillespie's legendary 1942 composition fueled a jazz revolution called bebop.

In the first of a two-part series, NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on the new "Supermax" prison in Boscobel, Wis., built to house the most vicious criminals from other prisons. It cost $44 million to build, and yearly operating costs are projected at $10 million. It appears that economic and political considerations played an important part in the decision to build the facility, which has room for 500 inmates.

While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can be a "continuous renewable power source" during the day and at night.