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Commentator Diana Nyad sides with the PGA in a controversial case now before the Supreme Court. The case "Professional Golfers Association vs. Casey Martin" will decide to what extent professional sports need to edit their rulebooks to conform to the Americans with Disabilities Act.

NPR's Sara Chayes reports on Malcom Miller, an Englishman who has made his life's work to learn, and tell, the history of France's Chartres Cathedral. Since the 1950's, Miller has given tours of the 12th Century cathedral located near Paris.

African American poet Cornelius Eady has published seven poetry collections, and was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His latest, Brutal Imagination (Putnam) is a cycle of poems that revisits the Susan Smith child murder case through the voice of the imaginary black man she said carjacked and kidnapped her children. From New York, Tom Vitale reports.

The Library of America has published a two-volume collection of Edith Wharton's stories. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Maureen Howard, the editor of the collection who reads from Wharton's works.

Two weeks after a 7-point-7 magnitude earthquake hit India, some villages are just beginning to receive tents to temporarily replace their damaged homes. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Varsamadhi.

On Friday night a United States submarine surfaced off the coast of Hawaii and hit a Japanese fishing boat. The boat carried Japanese students and teachers from Uwajima Fisheries High School. Nine people are still missing. Host Lisa Simeone talks with Damon Erickson who teaches English at the school, located on the southern Japanese island Shikoku.

Essayist and California resident Madeline Hnatowich-Dean considers the possibility of another day without electric power.

The Patients' Bill of Rights is back on the agenda of the U.S. Congress. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Health Policy reporter Julie Rovner about the legislation and the disagreements between Capitol Hill and the White House that are preventing the bill from becoming law.

Tamara Keith reports from Half Moon Bay in Northern California about how the energy crisis is affecting flower growers working up the rose crop for Valentines Day.

Host Bob Edwards remembers Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh. Yesterday, the 30-year-old stadium, a Pittsburgh landmark, was destroyed as part of a nationwide effort to make way for a modern generation of stadiums.