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Michael Pollan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. To learn more about the meat industry in the United States he bought a calf, and then followed the process from fattening to slaughter. His article, "Power Steer," is the cover story of the March 31, 2002, issue of the New York Times Magazine. Pollan is also the author of the book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World in which he maintains that plants and humans have developed a reciprocal, co-evolutionary relationship.

Their commentaries have taken on the Middle East, the Sept. 11 attacks, Enron, anthrax, global warming and, most recently, pedophilia by priests. They are the Carmelite nuns of Indianapolis, whose opinions appear on a Web site they call Pray the News. NPR's Susan Stamberg interviews two of the nuns on Morning Edition.

Wine lovers shouldn't limit themselves to the wines they love, wine expert Karen MacNeil says. The best way to learn about wines is to sample more of them, the author of The Wine Bible tells Susan Stamberg on Morning Edition.

Tourists flock to the French Quarter for Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But, as Morning Edition's Renee Montagne reports in the latest Present at the Creation segment, they would be wrong to think New Orleans' most famous section is totally French.

The second part of independent producer Julian Crandall Hollick's series on the street kids of Mumbai. This installment focuses on two adults, Jockin and Celine d'Cruz, who have been working with the children. They have found that trying to foist middle class values onto the children is often counter-productive. Instead, they try to find ways to let the children help themselves.

More than a third of America's elderly have no insurance to pay for the medications they need. Many seniors turn to discount drug programs for help, but using the programs' discount cards can be confusing and the benefits are limited. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

Last year, Gates uncovered a manuscript of a novel purportedly written in the 1850s by an African American woman who had been a slave. It is the first known work of its kind and has great historical and literary significance. The Bondwomans Narrative by Hannah Crafts, edited by Henry Louis Gates, has just been published (Warner Books). Well talk with Gates about the process of finding, authenticating and publishing the novel. Gates is the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities and chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Harvard University. Hes published seven books and has received many awards for his work.

Medicaid consumes the second largest share of state money, and its rapidly rising costs are swamping state budgets. Without the federal government's intervention, states say they're heading for a health care catastrophe. For All Things Considered, NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the latest events in the Middle East. Secretary of State Colin Powell has been unable to arrange a ceasefire between Israelis and Palestinians. Powell met with Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat for the first time on Sunday. He also had a second meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He now flies to Lebanon and Syria to try to resolve tensions on Israel's northern border.

A majority of likely voters favors the idea of allowing people to invest some of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, according to the results of a bipartisan survey. That surprising result is part of a poll on American attitudes toward retirement security -- the first of several surveys to be conducted for NPR this year by two private polling outfits, one Republican, one Democrat. Mara Liasson reports for Morning Edition.