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NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports from Dallas on Dick Cheney's five-year tenure as Chief Executive of Halliburton Company, the world's largest provider of oil field equipment and services. Using his experience as Defense Secretary, Cheney transformed Halliburton into a much larger and more profitable company. He also used the connections he'd made at DOD to expand Halliburton's international operations. As a result, Cheney and the company both have profited handsomely.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on the latest terrain for advertisers: private vehicles. Several companies will make your monthly payments if you let them wrap your car with commercial messages and logos. Some motorists who've signed up seem to like the arrangement, but critics say it's another unfortunate step toward the commercialization of everything.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from outside Paris that an Air France Concorde jet crashed just after takeoff today from Charles de Gaulle airport. All 109 people on board and four on the ground are believed dead. A German tour company had chartered the flight, so most of those on board were Germans.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris where American cyclist Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France today, for the second time in two years. The 28-year old cyclist beat cancer to compete again this year.

Host David Wright speaks with Dr. Fred Luskin of the Stanford Medical Center about the science of forgiveness.

Host David Wright speaks with political analyst Stuart Rothenberg about what a Republican vice presidential nominee must bring to a Bush ticket. Governor Bush is expected to name his running mate in the next few days.

Host David Wright talks with ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.D, about his new book Medicine Quest. Plotkin has done extensive research throughout the rainforests of South America to explore the healing secrets of the natural world. Plotkin says we have a lot to learn from the biodiversity of the rainforest, especially from unlikely sources such as spiders, snakes and tree bark.

NPR's Guy Raz reports on the history of the Vice Presidency. It wasn't until the 20th Century that the position took on real importance. Even today, the position requires someone who can both balance the ticket and fit into the administration.

Linda talks to Jacob Weisberg, SLATE magazine's chief political correspondent, about the latest round of political ads for the presidential campaigns.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on a very conservative appeals court that made a series of important and controversial decisions that made it to the Supreme Court this past term. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals was upheld by the Supreme Court on its ruling that a key part of the Violence Against Women Act was unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court rejected the 4th Circuit's decision that the Miranda warnings to a criminal suspect were not necessary if a court were confident the defendant's confession was given voluntarily.