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The Kaiser Family Foundation releases a major survey on the views of parents, teachers, and students about sex education. As NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, there are some surprising findings -- notably that parents say they want schools to give their children more, not less, detailed information about such topics as AIDS, birth control, and sexual orientation.

With the growing acceptance in academia of different kinds of slang as legitimate forms of expression, it should come as no surprise that Amherst College is offering the first university-level course in Spanglish, a combination of Spanish and English. Ilan Stavans, the Amherst professor who's teaching the course, is also preparing a Spanglish dictionary. Pippin Ross reports.

Noah talks to Witold Rybczynski, the author of One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw. His book traces the screwdriver to medieval times, and highlights the contributions of inventors who have improved upon the tool, and the tools for making screws.

Music critic Milo Miles gives us his take on Napster, the online music community that allows users to download entire songs free of charge.

In a report from Podgorica, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli says Serbian State TV tonight broadcast word that opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica finished first in Sunday's presidential election. But, the Yugoslav State Election Commission said Kostunica did not win an outright majority and will have to face President Slobodan Milosevic in a run-off. The opposition insists Kostunica won well over 50-percent of the vote and denounced the government's call for a run-off.

Commentator Carol Wasserman's late husband once thought he discovered some ancient stones. Archeologists got excited. Then the truth came out.

When bees infested her house, Commentator Elissa Ely called apon an exterminator with a philosophical bent.

BBC reporter Andrew Cassell) talks to Noah Adams about the trial of two Libyans accused of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a Libyan man who is a self-professed former double agent testified against one of the defendants, saying that the defendant kept explosives in his airport office.

NPR's Mandelit del Barco reports from Los Angeles that organizers of a school voucher ballot measure in California, called Proposition 38, are offering free computers and free vacations to attract potential voters.

Host Mike Shuster talks to Peter Miller, author of The Common Sense Mortgage: How to Cut the Cost of Home Ownership by $50,000 or More, about interest rates and mortgages. (3:21) The Common Sense Mortgage : How to Cut the Cost of Home Ownership by $50,000 or More by Peter G. Miller is published by Contemporary Books; ISBN: 08092