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Yesterday's appellate ruling in the Cleveland school voucher case may set the stage for an eventual showdown in the U.S. Supreme Court. As NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, the unusually rancorous disagreement within the three-judge panel illustrates how contentious the voucher issue has become.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on California's statewide efforts to cut back tobacco use. She looks at the payoff from educational programs, laws that prohibit smoking in public places and other efforts by the state. One recent study found that lung cancer rates are lower in California as a result of these initiatives.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on what scientists expect to see over the next few months in Europe's Mad Cow Disease outbreak. Scientists in the U.S. say the rash of infections may just be the tail of the outbreak, and they're confident it won't happen here.

Russell Lewis reports from member station KPBS in San Diego that a fatal Marine air crash is calling into question the future of an aircraft known as the Osprey. The Marines say this hybrid of a helicopter and plane is their next generation of aircraft. Critics call the Osprey unsafe, and a waste of tax dollars.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports on efforts by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall hazardous toys. Twelve items are on the CPSC's dangerous dozen including the Pokemon Ball originally given out by Burger King, and the Skydancer Doll,.and while these toys are no longer on the market, they could still be in consumer homes.

Butler Cain of Alabama Public Radio reports on the controversy over a landfill planned for Lowndes County, along the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights Trail. A judge has ordered Alabama's Department of Environmental Management to stop approval of the landfill, but the company planning to build it says the order doesn't apply to them.

The state of Oregon and the AARP are trying to make it easier for patients to obtain the proper prescriptions at the best prices. The state and the senior citizen group are providing an online comparison of four different types of drugs: for pain, blood pressure, cholesterol and arthritis. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the Total Information Awareness program. The project is intended to develop a method of tracking individuals' transactions for clues to a planned terrorist attack. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is in charge of the project.

Craig Venter, the big commercial player in the human genome project, announced today that he has funding from the Energy Department to create a new form of life -- a single-celled, partially man-made organism. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

In the aftermath of a crackdown on Internet downloads at the U.S. Naval Academy, NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on the measures taken at some other universities to discourage students from wasting limited bandwidth by downloading movies and music.