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  • Only one woman made the top 10 in Sports Illustrated's 2000 list of the 100 greatest athletes of the 20th century. Don Van Natta Jr. tells her story in Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias..
  • President Bush's new federal spending plan is the first to top $3 trillion. We turn to a classic recording from Whitney Houston to break it down.
  • Who says moviemakers are out of ideas? Hollywood studios may not always score, but for at least the third year in a row, foreign directors, indie auteurs and documentarians have served up enough eye-opening films that NPR's critic had trouble narrowing his best-of list to anything near a Top 10.
  • Health, energy and the environment, science and foreign assistance were among the areas that saw larger reductions in the fiscal 2011 budget request. Some of President Obama's pet projects, such as "Race to the Top" aid for public schools, managed to avoid the ax.
  • Pez Owen was joyriding in a Cessna airplane when she spotted one down below. A landmark that big would show up on any flight chart — but it wasn't logged. Then she spotted more X's in the distance.
  • The back story of the Moscow pageant, the Russian father-son duo — one a billionaire developer and the other an aspiring pop star, the British-born promoter and the future American president.
  • Voters in the Golden State voted to jettison traditional political primaries in a bid to help moderate candidates. But that goal will remain elusive, experts say. And at the same time, the change will dramatically alter ballot access for third-party candidates.
  • Through a 40-year career that's reached from the Fillmore scene of late 1960s San Francisco to Nashville's top studios, Tracy Nelson has earned a reputation as a powerful singer with a stunning voice. Recently, Nelson's work on a new album was interrupted by a fire that badly damaged her home and her studio. But the music, like the artist herself, proved to be a survivor.
  • The British tournament becomes one of the first tennis events to suspend players from the two countries since Russia invaded Ukraine, and excludes several highly ranked players from competition.
  • The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan never refers explicitly to the U.S. experience in Iraq, but that conflict clearly underlies his grim analysis and some of the key counterinsurgency lessons he draws upon. The White House now faces a fundamental decision of whether to commit more forces or narrow its focus in Afghanistan.
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