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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.

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.

Film critic HNERY SHEEHAN reviews the new film "The Tailor of Panama," starring Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush.

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.

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.

Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Adam Hochberg about officials in North Carolina who said they were testing a pig suspected of having foot-and-mouth disease. But the U.S. Agriculture Department says the tests turned out be negative.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House that German Chancellor Schroeder is expected to question President Bush today on his decision to back away from the global warming treaty. Germany and other U.S. allies in Europe support the Kyoto Treaty, which the United States hasn't ratified.

Commentator Jack Germond says that campaign finance reform might help improve the political process -- but legislation alone won't suffice.

Host Renee Montagne talks with John Hooper, Berlin Bureau Chief of England's Guardian newspaper, about the train-load of nuclear waste returning to Germany this week. Many thousands of protesters did all they could to stop the train and its radioactive cargo, but German police helped it along.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Edwin Carrington, Caribbean Community and Common Market, or CARICOM. They discuss the Bush Administration's policies on trade in the Caribbean.