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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from The Netherlands that the defense began its summation today in the trial of two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The defense attorneys had called only eight witnesses in the course of the eight-month trial in a special Scottish court, convened at Camp Zeist. In his closing argument, lawyer William Taylor tried to poke holes in the prosecution's case, saying the Crown had failed to prove his client Abdel Ali al-Megrahi was a Libyan agent who was working in concert with the co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah. The attorney again tried to shift the blame to a Palestinian group. Two hundred seventy people died in the 1988 bombing.

NPR's Amy Costello reports on the use of stun guns -- devices that deliver a strong electric shock -- in law enforcement. In 1994, a research branch of the U.S. Justice Department offered 900 stun guns to the Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff's department, to study whether the weapons would reduce violence between prisoners and officials. The sheriff swiftly put them into use by prison guards. Only a year later, the Justice Department proper was investigating charges of abuse of inmates by guards using the weapons.

Commentator Austin Bay talks about Midland, Texas, the town that shaped a president.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman about diet.

President Clinton's former campaign strategist and political advisor Paul Begala talks about life in the Clinton Whitehouse.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from the Netherlands on the trial for two Libyans charged in the Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a lawsuit filed by the state of Utah alleging that the Census Bureau failed to count 14-thousand of its citizens last year, robbing the state of a congressional seat.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the celebration in Southeast Texas of the world's most important oil strike. It's been 100 years since Spindletop first spewed out black gold.

President Clinton's former budget director and chief of staff Leon Panetta.

Derby Pie is a Louisville specialty that's being threatened by others making a claim on it.