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The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, produce a profile of Laila Ali, daughter of famed boxer Muhammad Ali. Tonight she enters the ring with Jacqui Frazier, daughter of another renowned boxer, Joe Frazier. Both women compete professionally, but their match is a lot more than professional - it renews their fathers' historic rivalry.

Host Jacki Lyden visits four families in Israel and the West Bank who have lost children in the bloody conflict in that region. Since the most recent violence began on September 28, almost two hundred children under eighteen have died, 164 Palestinians and thirty-seven Israelis.

While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can be a "continuous renewable power source" during the day and at night.

Lisa talks with author Michael Chabon about the legend of the golem, the mythical man made of clay. Chabon researched the golem while writing his latest novel, Kavalier and Clay, which just won the Pultizer Prize for fiction.

The top of 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the big island of Hawaii, is one of the last best places to do astronomy. But astronomers now have devised a way to make "the seeing," as they call it, even better. Join NPR's Christopher Joyce for a visit to Mauna Kea.

Robert talks with Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, about how Ralph Nader's run for President on the Green Party ticket affected the final outcome of the election. Rothschild was a strong Nader supporter. (4:45) See http://www.progressive.org for more information.

NPR's Tom Cole sits down with blues guitar legend Eric Clapton to talk about his childhood in Surrey, England, his difficult relationship with his family, and why "reptile" is a term of endearment.

Comic Judy Carter explores how American stand-up and situation comedy has changed in the last few years.

Comments by a German Bishop on a talk show over the weekend have fueled debate about whether Pope John Paul II might retire his post before he dies. Robert talks with Father Thomas J. Reese, Editor in Chief of the Roman Catholic magazine America, and author of Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church. They discuss church canon, which does allow a Pope to retire if he feels he cannot fulfill his duties. Few have taken such a step. Reese explains what happens if a Pope becomes incapacitated before retiring. Reese's book, Inside the Vatican, is published by Harvard University Press, 1998.

Noah talks with Tom Debaggio, an herb grower and writer with early onset Alzheimer's. His wife Joyce and son Francesco also participate. This is the third conversation Noah has had with Tom.