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From Member station WKSU Mark Urycki reports on a new movie set in Australia entitled, The Dish. It's the first feature film to explore Australia's role in the Apollo 11 mission. In the tiny town of Parkes stands a 210 foot radio telescope that helped to capture the weak TV images Apollo 11 sent from the moon.

Neuroscientists in California have been able to take cells from human brains hours after death and coax some of the cells to continue dividing in the laboratory. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, for now, the result is of limited practical value, but it could pave the way for generating nerve tissue to treat human disease.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impact Reverend Jesse Jackson's latest scandals have had on his previously active political life. Jackson was conspicuously absent from the riots in Cincinnati earlier this month, after a unarmed black man was shot and killed by a white police officer.

David D'arcy reports on Otesanek, the latest film from Czech director Jan Svankmajer. Svankmajer mixes animation and live action and his films have had a huge influence on younger filmmakers, especially England's Brothers Quay. Otesanek is screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival and opens in theaters in the fall.

From member station WABE in Atlanta, Joshua Levs reports on a tentative contract agreement reached by the pilots union at Delta Airlines. Delta officials are hoping the agreement will help to restore the public's trust. The airline has seen a drop in bookings, and recently posted its first loss in six years.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports Florida's severe drought is causing state officials to consider a water saving plan. The idea is to inject billions of gallons of stormwater runoff into deep underground aquifers, then pump it out the next time there's a drought. The governor and state legislature are enthusiastic, but environmentalists fear for the potential contamination of Florida's underground sources of drinking water.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on former Sen. Bob Kerrey's decision to go public with the story of a raid he led during the Vietnam War. One of the members of Kerrey's Navy Seal team claims Kerrey gave the order to kill a group of unarmed women and children they found in the village of Thanh Phong.

Mitch Teich, from member station KNAU, reports on the continuing battle in Flagstaff, Arizona's, battle over adding fluoride to the water. Dentists and doctors are singing the praises of fluoride's ability to protect teeth from cavities, but some residents are holding onto McCarthy-era fears of fluoride as a tool of the Communists.

On his first overseas trip as US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld spoke to many of his European counterparts yesterday at the annual Security Policy Conference in Munich, Germany. Rumsfeld outlined the Bush administration's policy, including support for a controversial missile defense system. NPR's Guy Raz reports from Munich.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London that Britain announced plans today to kill 100,000 more animals, in addition to the 200,000 sheep, cows and pigs marked for slaughter because of foot-and-mouth disease. World governments are scrambling to contain the virus, which has reportedly spread to parts of the Middle East.