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Linda Wertheimer talks with Peter Hart, CEO of Hart Research, about a poll he conducted for the Wall Street Journal and NBC News on public opinion about the economy. Hart found that there is only a slight fear of recession.

Creator and executive producer of the HBO hit series The Sopranos, David Chase. The show has just begun its 3rd season. Rebroadcast from June 22, 2000.

Before her role as the harping mother on The Sopranos, she was best known for her recurring roll as Mrs. Pynchon on the TV series Lou Grant. Marchand's film credits included Jefferson in Paris, The Naked Gun, and The Bostonians. She died last year. Rebroadcast from March 18, 1999.

As the global economy knits countries closer together, it becomes easier for diseases to spread through states, over borders and across oceans doing serious damage to vulnerable populations. American RadioWorks and NPR News present a series on this lethal side effect of globalization.

NPR's Ivan Watson reports on vigilante justice in southeastern Nigeria. A provincial government has hired a machete-toting militia called "The Bakassi Boys" to deal with a spate of armed robberies. The results have been bloody but immensely popular, and the crime rate has dropped sharply.

In the third part of his series on the oil century, John Burnett reports that high technology has reinvented the oil and gas industries. Companies can now find oil in places once considered impossible, such as deep beneath the ocean. They also can use high-tech instruments to find oil in spent and all but forgotten places, such as the Spindletop oil field. The new wildcatters say oil supplies may be finite, but the reach of knowledge is infinite. (12:30) More information and previous audio segments can be found on our Spindletop feature page, which accompanies this series on the oil and gas industry.

Hockey is a rough sport, but it's proving to be an effective form of therapy for some recent amputees who grew up playing the game. Hockey therapy started in Russia, with soldiers who lost limbs in wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. Now it's taking hold in Canada and the U.S. Teams of amputee players will compete in a tournament this weekend in support of a ban on landmines. Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio reports.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the latest findings by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights regarding the voting problems that occurred in Florida during last year's election. The Commission announced that it would be monitoring the Florida legislature to see what reforms come out of Tallahassee. In the meantime, there will be hearings held in Florida this spring to see if any change has been implemented since last fall's debacle.

Film critic Henry Sheehan reviews 15 Minutes starring Robert DeNiro, Edward Burns, and Kelsey Grammer.

Robert Siegel talks with Robert Matthews, a physicist at Aston University in Birmingham, England and the world's foremost expert on Murphy's Law. Matthews is part of a six-week experiment across Britain that begins today. Up to 150,000 primary and secondary school pupils are dropping buttered toast. If the results prove that the toast is more likely to fall butter-side down, Murphy's law will be validated.