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Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the battle for media attention between President Bush and former President Clinton. Clinton is busy dealing with attacks on his pardon of fugitive Marc Rich, while Bush is trying to gain approval for his tax-cut program.

An estimated 15,000 convicts in nearly two dozen prisons in Brazil rioted yesterday in what appeared to be a well-coordinated effort. Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Martin Kaste about the latest developments.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that a new study has found that some types of fisheries may actually lead to a net loss of available food. The report bases its findings on the fact than some types of fish, including salmon, eat four times as much food as they eventually yield.

The Flint Hills in central Kansas are covered by tallgrass prairies that once spread across much of the Midwest. Now 11,000 acres of that land are being set aside as a national preserve. Matt Hackworth of member station KCUR in Kansas City reports.

NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg reports on an exhibition of Steinway pianos that belonged to legendary pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn. The tour begins a month-long engagement in Cleveland today.

Seven-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt died yesterday in a car crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500. NPR's Tom Goldman reports.

Host Bob Edwards shares listener comments in our weekly letters segment.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says President George W. Bush finds himself in a tougher spot than his father was in when it comes to dealing with Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

David Kestenbaum reports on astronomers plans to deal with some future climate changes. A billion years from now the sun will swell and grow brighter as it burns more fuel. By nudging an asteroid into close passes with the earth, they say it would be possible to move our planet into a cooler, more distant orbit. That would buy us a five billion years to figure out what happens when the sun becomes a red giant and engulfs us.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Richard Atkinson, president of the the University of California system, about his push to ban the SAT as an admission requirement for UC schools. Atkinson hopes to replace the aptitude test with a test based on curriculum.