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The United Nations begins a special session on AIDS Monday in New York. The conference will call for governments and NGOs to contribute $10 billion annually to AIDS treatment and prevention programs. Lisa Simeone speaks with Thoraya Obaid, head of the U.N. Population Fund, about cultural considerations that come into play when dealing with reproductive and sexual activity.

Noah talks with Tom DeBaggio, his wife Joyce and son Francesco, about Tom's early onset of Alzheimer's disease. This type of Alzheimer's strikes people between the ages of 30 and 60 and progresses more rapidly than another type found among the elderly. DeBaggio and his family run an herb farm. He says he noticed memory lapses about a year ago when he had trouble naming plants he had been selling for 25 years.

Folklorist Nick Spitzer tells the story of Woody Guthrie's leftist national anthem.

All Things Considered book reviewer Alan Cheuse's picks list of summer books.

In the first of a two-part series, NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on the new "Supermax" prison in Boscobel, Wis., built to house the most vicious criminals from other prisons. It cost $44 million to build, and yearly operating costs are projected at $10 million. It appears that economic and political considerations played an important part in the decision to build the facility, which has room for 500 inmates.

In 1966, Michael A. Baronowski of Norristown, Penn., took a tape recorder with him into combat in Vietnam. Lance Cpl. Baronowski was in the demilitarized zone when he captured sounds of jokes, songs, bombs, and bullets. He died later that year in an ambush in a village — but not before sending these recordings home. (Produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison.)

Managing a Major League baseball team has never been easy. And with skyrocketing salaries and multi-year contracts, star players can often exert more control over the team than the manager can. In part two of our series, The Changing Face of Sports and Society, NPR's Debbie Elliott examines how White Sox Manager Jerry Manuel keeps his players focused on what's best for the team.

Dizzy Gillespie's legendary 1942 composition fueled a jazz revolution called bebop.

David Greenberger reviews a new CD called "Rigging the Toplights" by a Chicago trio called Pinetop Seven. While many of the lyrics onthis album are dark and fearsome, Greenberger hears a strangely hopeful message in them. ("Rigging the Toplights" is released by Self-Help/Atavistic(ALP310). For more information, visit www.atavistic.com.

Scott talks to historian Richard Minear about some newly discovered political cartoons of Dr. Seuss from the early 1940's. Minear's book is called Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War Two Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel.