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Up to now, a wireless connection to the Internet has usually meant using a cell phone to log on. NPR's John McChesney reports that now there is another wireless technology aimed at laptop computers.

Prices plunged on Wall Street again today. Now that the stock market is struggling, commentator Andrei Codrescu says the long bull market didn't amount to much more than greed. He thinks the pioneering spirit of the Internet was long ago swallowed up by big corporations.

Commentator Arti Srivastava believes many mothers in the U.S. try to train their children to be too independent too early.

Commentator Meredith Small came face-to-face with the downside of western industrialization when the connection between her home and her sewer broke.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing today into online copyright issues -- both music and publishing. Many senators were critical of the recording industry as they questioned such panelists as Alanis Morrisette and Don Henley. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on complaints by oil producers that they need restrictions on energy exploration lifted from more public lands. They say more gas and oil should be produced in the U.S. and the lack of access to public lands is the chief obstacle.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports five contenders are vying to replace International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is stepping down after two tumultuous decades at the top.

NPR's Peter Overby reports that the campaign finance bill passed last night by the Senate virtually ignores President Bush's suggested set of principles for campaign finance reform. Now the White House is mulling what to do about the bill.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports that despite the country's increasing racial diversity, a new report shows segregation remains common in metropolitan areas. The report, using data from the 2000 Census, comes from the State University of New York in Albany.

Adam Hochberg reports that it's snake roundup season in the South, a springtime tradition in which hunters scour the woods for rattlesnakes and bring them into town -- often to be slaughtered. Roundups were originally intended to protect people from snake bites. They have become tourist attractions in some places, like Claxton, Ga. But environmentalists and animal rights groups call the roundups barbaric