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Lisa talks with 72-year old Betty Weeks of Arlington, Virginia. Weeks retired as a crossing guard last week after 38 years patrolling the same intersection. She says the kids and drivers have changed over the years. Plus, we'll hear a poem she wrote about her job.

Film critic Bob Mondello takes a look at the advertising lines used to attract movie-goers.

Host Frank Stasio talks about the foreign policy issues facing President Bush with a panel of international journalists: Nayan Chanda, editor-at-large of the Far East Economic Review; Masha Lipman, deputy editor of Itogi, the Russian newsmagazine; and syndicated columnist Rami Khouri, former editor of the Jordan Times. Foreign policy challenges include continuing unrest in the Middle East and the recent sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a US submarine.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says Bush is receiving plenty of advice from within and without his administration about how to handle international matters. (3:30).

Essayist Ellis Cose just visited the Indian state of Gujurat. The recent Indian earthquake highlighted for Cose the persistent discrimination against the lowest level in the Indian caste system, the Dalit, or untouchables.

A deep sea robot has found the Japanese fishing boat that was ripped apart by a US submarine last week. This week, the navy revealed that civilians were at the helm of the USS Greenville at the time of the accident. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with editor Paul Beaver of Jane's Defense Weekly about the practice of allowing civilians to observe manuevers on a military sub.

David D'Arcy reports from the Berlin International Film Festival on the screening of a five-year-old film starring actor Leonardo Di Caprio, Don's Plum. DiCaprio won a legal battle to allow the filmmakers to show the film outside of North America, for fear that nudity and explicit language would tarnish the actor's reputation.

As lawmakers return home for a week-long recess, they'll be gauging their constituents' opinions on President Bush's tax cut plan. NPR's David Welna reports on the tax cut debate.

While liberals and conservatives tie up legislation with partisan bickering, many Americans long for a centrist point of view. Author Amitai Etzioni leads a moderate counterculture known as the Communitarian movement. Frank talks to Etzioni about how the philosophy was born and why it has become ever more important today.

Frank talks with Marc Engel, e-commerce analyst at Alexa Research, about a two-year study of how people search on the world wide web. Not surprisingly, the word "sex" was the most popular term people searched for online. (3:00) (for more information, see the website at http://www.alexaresearch