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On Monday evening, 10 year old Rodney McAllister went to a city park across from his home in St. Louis, Mo. The next morning he was found under a pine tree, mauled to death by stray dogs. McAllister's mother, Gladys Loman, was charged with a misdemeanor for endagering the welfare of a child. Animal control officers rounded up nine stray dogs by late Tuesday. Robert Siegel talks with Greg Jonsson, a reporter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, about the mauling case and what animal control officials are doing to prevent a similar attack.

NPR's Chris Arnold profiles a man considered a "social entrepreneur", who gave up a big-city law career to defend death-row inmates and prisoners denied medical care. That lawyer, Steven Bright, goes about his work at the Southern Center for Human Rights with a zeal usually associated with those in the high-tech sector.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about President Bush's efforts to get his tax cut plan approved by the Senate. Mr. Bush is in Florida today, hoping to gain the support of the two Democratic Florida senators.

Commentator Matt Miller says President Bush's proposed tax cut will empty the government's stockpiles exactly when it should be filling them.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Teresa LePore, elections supervisor of Palm Beach County, Florida. The state has municipal elections Tuesday, and officials are promising none of the problems of the November election, and none of the butterfly ballots.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Schlosser spent the last few years visiting slaughterhouses and various franchises to research his investigation into the industry. He discovered that fast food's impact reaches beyond consumers into the cattle, agricultural, and meat packing industries.

Ugandans go to the polls today to vote for president. But NPR's Kenneth Walker reports that there are charges of opposition vote-rigging and intimidation by supporters of President Yoweri Museveni.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that Florida, and especially the southern parts of the state, are seeing the worst drought in 100 years.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the controversy over the military machine that's an airplane and helicopter in one--the Osprey V 22. It was developed specifically for the Marine Corps, but after two of the aircrafts crashed last year, many are asking the Pentagon to reconsider the Osprey program.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Michael Waltrip, the winner of Sunday's Daytona 500, on the late Dale Earnhardt; racing fan Cecil Inman; Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Louis Freeh on Robert Philip Hanssen who was arrested on charges of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia; Steve Gottlieb, founder and president of TVT Records, and Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Eminem and Elton John performing Stan at Wednesday night's Grammy ceremony; Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat, New York) and President George W. Bush.