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Highlights from the 53rd National Book Awards: novelist Philip Roth wins a lifetime achievement award and historian Robert Caro is honored for Master of the Senate, latest in a biographical series on Lyndon Johnson. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

A new road in Goshen, Ind., protects an old tradition. It's reserved for Amish horse-and-buggy use, keeping the slow-moving vehicles away from faster traffic. The ultimate destination: Wal-Mart. Marianne Holland of member station WVPE reports.

NATO leaders open a two-day summit in Prague by formally offering membership to seven nations once under Soviet control. And NATO nations adopt a measure pledging support for U.N. efforts to disarm Iraq. NPR's Guy Raz reports.

Advocates of campaign finance reform say the Federal Election Commission has "cut the guts" out of changes imposed after Congress passed the McCain-Feingold measure and its ban on "soft money" in political campaigns. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

Immune Response Corp. says it faces bankruptcy and may have to go out of business. The San Diego-based firm was founded by the late Dr. Jonas Salk -- who gave the world the polio vaccine -- in a bid to halt AIDS. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus that public schools aren't meeting their needs. In Arizona, educators and parents remain bitterly divided over bilingual education, which voters banned two year ago. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

United Airlines faces another large debt payment Monday. The struggling airline is trying to persuade the mechanics union to take salary cuts to help stave off bankruptcy. The mechanics are the last holdout in a company-wide effort to reduce labor costs. Jay Field reports.

The juvenile suspect in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper case is being held as an adult in a Virginia jail. That's sparking debate over whether underage defendants should enter the adult criminal justice system. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

The Supreme Court considers how far the U.S. government's trust responsibility extends to Native American tribes. In one case, a tribe is suing the government for allowing a fort on an Arizona reservation to fall into ruin. Daniel Kraker reports.

Three Irish nationals are on trial in Colombia for allegedly training Colombian rebels to make explosives. Prosecutors say two of the three men are members of the Irish Republican Army. The defense team maintains the three were in rebel-held Colombian territory observing the peace process. Steven Dudley reports.