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Students at Harvard rallied today to demand "a living wage" of $10.25 an hour for the university's lowest paid workers. Their week long sit-in has attracted support from the state's two Democratic senators, as well as national union officials and the NAACP. NPR's Philip Martin has a report.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on medical research showing that a drug used to treat obsessive compulsive disorder, can be effective in treating children who suffer from extreme anxiety. The drug is called fluvoxamene. The research is published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that IBM officials say its new ad campaign is cutting edge. They're painting graffiti-like symbols on Chicago's sidewalks. But city officials call it vandalism and are insisting the company pay big money to clean-up the ads.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on new studies that seem to disprove the theory that the virus that causes AIDS was first transmitted to humans in tainted polio vaccine during the late 1950's. The evidence against that theory appears in today's issue of the journal Nature.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from Berlin, Germany where May Day demonstrations turned violent today. Police used water cannon and tear gas against left-wing protesters, who had pelted them with cobblestones and set fires in the streets.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports in a surprising turn of events, the Chinese Communist Party has started quoting Confucius. Most of the last half century, the party has tried to eliminate Confucius from public discourse. The revival of Confucionism might be an attempt to build public confidence in the government, which is riddled with corruption.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a study which finds a woman need not get a complete physical in order for her doctor to determine whether its safe to use hormonal birth control, like "the pill." The study appears in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

The trial of former Ku Klux Klansman Thomas Blanton Jr. is over. The man was convicted of bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports on the trial and sentencing in this highly publicized case.

A federal grand jury in New York today indicted A. Alfred Taubman, former chairman of Sotheby's Holdings, and Anthony J. Tennant, former chairman of Christie's International, for fixing the commissions they charged at auctions between 1993 and 1999. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

DNA evidence may exonerate four Chicago men convicted 13 years ago of the rape and murder of a medical student. New analysis appears to show they could not have committed the rape. Robert Siegel talks with Steve Mills, staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune.