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From member station KPBS, Scott Horsley reports from San Diego on Californians' anger at Texas power companies. Texas companies that supply energy to California recently posted huge profits.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new scientific findings that have enormous potential for genetic engineering. Two groups of researchers have discovered a way to "hack into" the DNA of bacteria, and trick them into using an additional amino acid to build proteins. The findings eventually could be used to produce new medicines, new materials, and even new life forms.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the advertising campaign that's bringing Smokey Bear into the new millennium. The public service announcements alter the bear's famous warning about "forest fire" prevention, to one concerning "wildfires," in order to emphasize that deserts and grasslands are also prone to destructive fires.

Susan Hansen reports on the death of a teenage Vermont girl. The case has exposed a prostitution ring run out of New York City that uses girls who were supposed to be in Vermont state custody.

Commentator and public defender David Feige tells of listening to a young drug offender go before a tough judge in the Bronx.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Vicki O'Hara on the reported decision by the Bush administration not to sell armed U.S. ships to Taiwan.

In the final part of her month long series on money, NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on the question of money in marriage and divorce. She focuses on a highly publicized divorce case involving a stay-at-home mother, whose husband was a top level corporate executive. The net worth of Gary and Lorna Wendt was $100 million in 1995, when he filed for divorce. She contested a settlement of 10 million dollars and was then awarded $20 million, plus $250,000 per year in alimony for life. (7:36) (Lorna Wendt is founder of www.equalityinmarriage.or

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on Native American tribesmen who are suing the U.S. government. In the last century, tribal land has been stripped of its oil and timber without the people's consent. The tribes are now suing for billions of dollars in reimbursement.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports on the Navy's reprimand of the captain of the USS Greeneville. Cmdr. Scott Waddle was held "solely" at fault for the February collision with a Japanese fishing boat, and ordered to resign from the Navy.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Michael Loftis, president of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, about the work that his organization's missionaries were doing in Peru. Loftis discusses how the shooting down of a plane over Peru might affect the Association's approach to its work. The Association has 1,300 people in 65 countries. James and Veronica Bowers went to Peru in 1994, lived on a houseboat, and traveled among villages on the Amazon to preach and teach the Bible.