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A jury in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho has found the leader of a white supremacist group, and his former employees are liable for more than 6-million dollars in an attack on a woman and her son outside the group's headquarters. The case involves Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler, his former chief of staff and two security guards. Noah Adams talks to NPR's Andy Bowers about the verdict and the lawsuit.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports on the effect of drought and record high temperatures on the lives of Texans.

Host Jacki Lyden talks with Sidney Perkowitz, author of Universal Foam: From Cappuccino To The Cosmos (Walker & Company/2000). Perkowitz, a professor of physics at Emory University, discusses the role of foam in science and in everyday life.

We say farewell to a Broadway legacy. Cats closes tonight, after 18 years on Broadway.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports from Sydney, Australia on today's official welcome of athletes from more that 20 nations. Athletes are still arriving in preparation for Friday's opening ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that there's an increase in the number of businesses offering health insurance to their employees. But while employers often get health coverage at better costs than individuals, there is concern about how businesses select health care plans.

Commentator Krissa Palmer says gold stars, like the kind we all got in first grade, are a great way to thank people for their good deeds.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Melbourne, Australia that corporate executives from across the Asian-Pacific region are holding what's been dubbed the Business Olympics -- a session of the World Economic Forum. Today, screaming protesters clashed with police as they vandalized the cars of delegates trying to enter the economic forum in the latest target of an anti-globalization movement.

NPR's Alex Chadwick takes a National Geographic Radio Expedition to Uluru, the great natural wonder in Australia. It's a monolith, a great mass of rounded stone, rising straight up a thousand feet above the surrounding desert plain and considered sacred by Aborigines. Contrary to the wishes of the Ananu, some foreign visitors climb the rock. Walking the pathway is considered a spiritual journey and is acceptable.

Artists and Latino residents in San Francisco's Mission District are taking a theatrical approach to the problem of gentrification in their neighborhood. Alex Cohen of Member Station KQED reports.