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Host Bob Edwards talks with sports commentator John Feinstein about the narrowing NCAA championships. Basketball teams from the University of Maryland, Duke, University of Arizona and Michigan State will play for the title.

Much has been said recently about California's energy shortage and whether the rest of the country is in for the same. But what's the long view? How many more generations will be able to use coal or oil or uranium for energy? NPR's David Kestenbaum talks with experts who calculate just how much energy is left.

More than 1,300 Comair pilots went on strike today. President Bush is urging a quick resolution to the labor dispute. Joshua Levs reports.

For the first time in 10 years several states are facing budget cuts. From member station WOI, Joyce Russell reports Iowa is one of the states realizing it will collect hundreds of millions less in taxes than it planned. That's left the state choosing among promises made in rosier times.

Bill Pound, executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures, tells Noah Adams that many states are experiencing shortfalls in revenue.

We hear how the International Space Station played a role in the opening of last night's Academy Awards Ceremony, and why the astronauts weren't able to watch.

In early 19th-century America, dime museums were popular attractions. So named because admission cost $.10, these "museums" were eccentric collections of the bizarre: stuffed two-headed calves, petrified mummies, and dragon fossils. Some of it might have been real. Now two showmen in the old time tradition have opened the American Dime Museum in Baltimore. Harriet Baskas paid them a visit.

"My hope is that this piece will bring joy and inspiration to many people, just as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood did for generations," sculptor Paul Day says.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Doctor Cheryl Healton of the anti-tobacco American Legacy Foundation. They discuss the Surgeon General's report out today highlighting the differences between smoking habits of men and women. Women especially are the targets of aggressive marketing campaigns.

California residents may finally have to pay more for electricity. The president of California's Public Utilities Commission is offering up a plan for a rate increase of about 40 percent. Scott Horsley of member station KPBS in San Diego has the story.