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Members of the group known as the "Viper Militia" are scheduled to appear in federal court today for a detention hearing in Phoenix, Arizona. 12 members of the group were arrested Monday in connection with an alleged plot to teach others how to blow up federal office buildings. Doug Ramsey of member station K-J-Z-Z in Phoenix reports.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu tells us about a battle between writer Anne Rice and the man who owns the Popeye's Chicken franchise. In her eyes, the businessman's newest building in New Orleans is a blemish on the city. Codrescu says its style brings Hollywood to New Orleans, and that ain't good.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says she is worried about all those groups of smokers huddled outside the doors of their buildings...she fears they are forming camps, plotting revenge for all the smoke free zones imposed...and when we least expect it they will attack, with puffed smoke rings and ash-flicks. She's preparing for the attack.

Nearly two years after the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, NPR'S Kathy Lohr reports on how the city is grappling with how to rebuild... and how best to remember what happened there. The committee overseeing the construction of a memorial is trying to decide how to commemmorate the bombing while balancing the concerns of the survivors, the victims' families, and the community at large.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a plan to build a new type of atom-smashing device. Nearly 200 lasers would be combined and aimed at an object, in the hopes of producing nuclear fusion. Supporters say the facility would replace the need for underground testing of current nuclear weapons. But opponents say it's just another big-science boondoggle.

republic's efforts to rise from the ashes of communism and use its oil wealth to build a new future.

to build an offshore base now that it has agreed to close down some of its facilities on Okinawa.

Charles Scanlon reports that authorities in South Korea were still in a standoff with university students in Seoul who are calling for reunification with the North. Student protests have turned violent in recent days and the government has threatened to use force the students out of a university building.

From Jerusalem, Laurie Neff reports on the new violence on the West Bank following Israel's decision to build a new settlement in mostly arab East Jerusalem and Israel's limited pullout of forces from rural parts of the occupied West Bank. Palestinians are furious over the Israeli moves .

Commentator Lenore Skenazy (skuh-NAY-zee) wonders why so many "educational" kids books and songs are concerned with farm animals and the sounds they make. If your kid is being raised on the 18th floor of a New York City apartment building, what's the relevance of knowing what sound a cow makes?