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Noah Adams watches a game in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament with some of the members of the Bishop McNamara High School girl's basketball team -- at the home of their coach. For the team members, the game is instructive as well as entertaining. They see their future hopes and challenges in the game on TV.

Commentator Nancy Hall is a wife, mother and member of the PTA. Recently she decided to try something new. She's taken up kickboxing and karate, inspired by her grandmother. Saturday nights, her ladylike church-going granny went to the fights.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing that an American citizen has been held by Chinese authorities for over a month without charge. The Chinese born academic, who now holds a U.S. passport, was detained in late February in southern China.

In two separate experiments, scientists have repaired injured rodent hearts by transplanting into them stem cells, cells that are capable of developing into many cell types. The stem cells stimulated the development of new blood vessels and muscle tissue in the hearts of mice and rats. While more research needs to be done before the procedure can be tried in humans, NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists hope that it will someday help people who've had heart attacks.

Andrew Kohut of the Pew Center for the People and the Press talks about reasons why the public isn't interested in campaign finance reform.

Robert Siegel talks with Stanley Kunitz, U.S. poet laureate. This weekend Mr. Kunitz is reading his poems at the People's Poetry Gathering in New York City. The gathering kicks off National Poetry Month which begins Sunday.

Noah Adams talks with Jovana Ilic in Belgrade. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested at his house on Friday, according to Serbian media. Ms. Ilic had been at the house before the arrest and provides some details of the arrest. She says Milosevic was reportedly transferred to a justice administration building in central Belgrade.

Pandemic predictions have been made — and then things would change. But based on models and studies (including a 1980s test that squirted virus up human noses), researchers have a new endgame thesis.

Robert Siegel talks to Congressman Roy Blunt of Missouri, the chief deputy to the majority Whip, about the campaign finance reform legislations in the House. The House leadership intends to send the campaign finance reform bill to a conference.

Phillip Davis reports that NASCAR fans are celebrating the Florida legislature's enactment of a law that makes autopsy photos exempt from public records laws unless a judge releases them. Similar efforts are under way in Georgia, North Carolina and other southern states, following a Florida newspaper's effort to obtain autopsy photos of NASCAR champion racer Dale Earnhardt, who died in a crash Feb. 18 at the Daytona 500. The newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel, said it would challenge the new law as unconstitutional.