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The United States Olympic Committee plans to drug test high profile pro athletes like NBA Dream Teamers up to a year before the Olympics, just like it does to all other U.S. Olympians. Olympic team members from glamour sports like basketball, baseball and hockey are presently tested just before the games begin. The professional leagues, which have less stringent testing procedures than Olympic sports, aren't happy about the change.

The makers of old-fashioned wooden snowshoes are benefitting from an upsurge in interest in the winter sport. Sales of snowshoes have increased more than ten-fold in the past decade, mainly due to the introduction of hi-tech aluminum brands. The traditional activity of hunters and trappers is now the fastest-growing winter sport in the country. It takes about two weeks to produce a hand-made wooden snowshoe ... and the design has changed little in hundreds of years. Maine Public Radio's Susan Chisholm reports.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer provide some backround on the victims who were shot Santana High School yesterday.

George is the name of a four-foot tall wild turkey living in a Newtonville, MA neighborhood. Because of him, mail delivery in the area has become a bit of a problem. Turns out George doesn't like the mail carrier all that much. Tim Hoban is the man who draws George's ire. The bird lunges, squawks and pecks at Hogan while he travels his daily route. He won't attack other carriers, just Hogan. Robert talks with postman about the foul fowl.

Commentator Frank DeFord discusses the truths of money in sports. He says it's all about the bucks.

Morning Edition's Cowboy Poet Baxter Black decries the tug-of-war that is the month of March.

He traveled to Afghanistan to profile Ahmad Shah Massoud, (known as the Lion of Panjshir), the legendary leader of the guerrilla war against the Soviets, who is now fighting the Taliban. Junger traveled with photographer Reza Deghati who spent several years covering the war there. Jungers article The Lion in Winter appears in the March/April issue of National Geographics Adventure magazine. Its also the subject of a National Geographic Explorer program Into the Forbidden which aired march 4 on CNBC.

Robert Siegel talks with Ian F. Hanley Lopez, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, about changing definitions in the United States of who is white. Lopez is the author of White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race.

Commentator Ruben Navarette says there's a difference between where Hispanics are politically and where they should be in terms of their demographics. While the population of Hispanics is rising, the number of Hispanic representatives at all levels of government hasn't kept pace.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem on the installation of Israel's new government, led by right wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The government includes moderate leftists and right wing extremists and it will command a decisive majority in Israel's parliament.