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We'll discuss the case for mammography screenings for women beginning at 40 and find out the latest on breast cancer treatment.

A new experimental treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, involves doses of the popular party drug ecstasy. Tom Shroder recently wrote about the treatment in the Washington Post Magazine. Shroder is joined by Dr. Michael Mithoefer, who performed the experiment.

The Supreme Court takes on carbon dioxide as it hears arguments over climate change and CO2 emissions. Madeleine Brand talks with Slate.com's legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick.

Alan Rabinowitz, a scientist from New York, felt compelled to walk 600 miles into the Himalayas to visit one of the last surviving Asian pygmies and show him a picture of Rabinowitz's baby son.

NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Kathleen Collins, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, about recent political upheaval in the central Asian country of Kyrgystan. The small nation north of Afghanistan is struggling to re-organize the government after mass protests over recent elections prompted President Askar Akayev to flee the country.

The Supreme Court surprised some court watchers Monday by declining to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act. One legal observer suggests that recent racist incidents involving Southern Republicans may have influenced the court's decision.

We'll get the latest news about the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Baja, California on Sunday.

KPBS auction winner says Indy still packs a punch. (Paramount) This year, KPBS offered three auction packages in which winners would have a chance to get…

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The San Diego Unified School District is facing an estimated $114 million budget deficit for next academic year. The deficit could be cut in half if voters approve tax extensions in a statewide special election the governor has proposed for June. We talk to the school board president Richard Barrera and the president of the teachers union, Bill Freeman, about the possibility that more than 700 teachers could be laid off. Plus, we talk about what actions the district should take to prevent future budget deficits.