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Liane talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about hockey star Mario Lemieux, who will play in today's National Hockey League All-Star Game. Lemieux retired more than three years ago, suffering from Hodgskin's Disease and a bad back. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and went on to become owner of his team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. But he missed playing the game, returned to the ice in December, and already is back to All-Star form.

Amy Cordaro caters to women undergoing chemotherapy: she sells and styles wigs for them at her shop Amy of Denmark, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Cancer patients tell host Lisa Simeone they feel well-tended and soothed under Amy's guidance.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on President Bush's appearance at the Democratic legislative retreat in Pennsylvania yesterday. Mr. Bush continued his attempt to charm the opposition. Though some members seemed charmed, he faced tough questions from Democrats, many of whom remain skeptical of finding common legislative ground with the new president.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Paul Light of the Brookings Institution about his new report on the greatest achievements of the federal government in the past 50 years.

Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR in Boston reports on Roman Totenberg, the 90-year-old concert violinist whose decades in music are now bridging the gap between two very diverse musical periods. A concert tonight in Boston will honor Totenberg on his birthday. (Roman Totenberg is the father of NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg).

With new elections for Prime Minister of Israel scheduled for Tuesday, opinion polls strongly suggest that Likud Party candidate Ariel Sharon could win and displace Labor Party candidate and current Prime Minister Ehud Barak. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue; President George W. Bush and Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State; Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah) and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (Democrat, South Dakota); Peter Lowenstein, who lost his son in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland and Scotland's chief prosecutor, Colin Boyd.

On his first overseas trip as US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld spoke to many of his European counterparts yesterday at the annual Security Policy Conference in Munich, Germany. Rumsfeld outlined the Bush administration's policy, including support for a controversial missile defense system. NPR's Guy Raz reports from Munich.

Many consumers in California have trouble believing the state's electrical power shortage is real. But some analysts say there were indications throughout the past decade that California would soon be facing an energy crisis. Cheryl Colopy of member station KQED reports.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Jon Cohen, author of Shots In The Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, about efforts over the last decade to develop a vaccine to eradicate the spread of HIV and AIDS. Cohen's book details the different ways -- legal, political and financial -- in which the development of a vaccine is hindered or blocked.