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NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that public health officials in New Jersey are taking precautions to protect residents of the state against the spread of West Nile virus, which is carried by mosquitoes. The disease is spread from birds, such as crows, to humans, who may or may not be aware they've been infected. Symptoms range from headaches to coma, and, in some cases the virus can be deadly.

The U.S. Soccer Federation is offering the men's and women's senior national teams the same pay structure, years after the women's team filed a major lawsuit over equal pay concerns.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about this week's political events. With turmoil in the Middle East, how will the U.S presidential candidates deal with the issue of foreign policy as it relates to the campaign?

Noah talks to Marc Levoy, a computer scientist at Stanford University, who spent a year scanning Michaelangelo sculptures in Italy. He discovered that the eyes in the famous David sculpture are looking in two different directions. He says Michaelangelo used this "trick," so David could have a typical Roman profile from one perspective.

The annual meeting of the Southern Baptists today voted on a revision on their statement of faith. The new language reiterates the Southern Baptist Convention's opposition to homosexuality, abortion, racism and pornography and says that the office of pastor is reserved for men. NPR's Lynn Neary reports from the convention.

Alex talks to Alston Chase, author of a cover story in this month's Atlantic Monthly magazine about Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. Chase says that while he was an undergraduate at Harvard, Kaczynsky participated in a psychological experiment that would be considered unethical by today's standards, and probably turned him into the Unabomber.

Barbara visits a local hospital, and talks to men who are about to become fathers for the first time. She talks to them as they wait for their wives to have their babies in the Birthing Center at Columbia Hospital for Women, in Washington DC.

Commentator Mario Livio says since the 16th century, human beings have learned much about the universe, helping us realize our own insignificance. But at the same time, says Livio, it is those very discoveries that have given the Earth importance.

Deborah Willis, a photographer and recent MacArthur Fellow takes Sharon on a tour of Reflections in Black. Willis is curator of the exhibit, a comprehensive collection of images by Black photographers from 1840 to the present. The collection of 300 pictures is on view at the Smithsonian and a companion book of over 600 photographs was published this year. Willis has spent more than 20 years archiving and presenting the work of photographers throughout the African diaspora.(Reflections In Black, A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present, Norton; 2000; ISBN: 0-393-04880-2)

Alex talks with Robert Shipp of the Marine Science department at the University of South Alabama about a recent and rare bull shark attack on the Gulf Coast of Alabama.