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Charles de Ledesma reviews 1 Giant Leap a multimedia project that combines documentary film, recorded music, and spoken word, all compiled on a CD and a DVD. Two producers spent six months traveling to more than 20 countries, recording musicians, writers, and storytellers. Featured on the project are readings from Kurt Vonnegut and Dennis Hopper, and performances by Michael Stipe, Nenah Cherry and Baaba Maal, among others. All of the audio corresponds with short films, with themes like time, death, happiness, money, and God. The CD 1 Giant Leap is from Palm Pictures, catalog # PALM CD 2077-2.

Four years after the last round of weapons inspectors left Baghdad, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrived in Baghdad Monday, along with International Atomic Energy Agency head Mohamed ElBaradei and advance inspection teams that the two men will oversee. NPR’s Vicky O’Hara profiles Blix.

A quarter-century after Anwar Sadat's historic trip of peace to Jerusalem, NPR's Bob Edwards examines the late Egyptian leader's legacy. Hear Sadat's 1977 speech to the Israeli parliament at NPR Online.

Private relief organizations are increasingly alarmed by their inability to plan for the consequences of war in Iraq.

Investigative journalist Bob Woodward is assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. He's the author of eight nonfiction bestsellers, including All the President's Men and The Final Days -- both on Watergate and President Nixon -- and The Brethren, about the Supreme Court. For his newest book, Bush at War, he had behind-the-scenes access to the Bush administration in the first 100 days after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Rare good news about orangutans: Scientists have found a previously unknown population of the great ape, living in the dense rainforest of Borneo. The discovery is a boost to orangutan conservation. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for Radio Expeditions.

Journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell has written a new book, The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin. Shell is a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Discover and other publications. She's an associate professor and co-director of Knight Center for Science Journalism at Boston University.

After the Marx Brothers' movie Duck Soup flopped, the talk around Hollywood was that America's most popular comedy team was washed up. But their follow-up, A Night at the Opera, became their biggest hit. Jeff Lunden looks behind the curtain of the 1935 classic as part of the Present at the Creation series on cultural icons.

In conjunction with the opening of the NPR West facility in Los Angeles, Morning Edition airs part two of a five-part radio play, I'd Rather Eat Pants.

The Web site TomPaine.com has offered a $10,000 reward to whoever can prove the identity of what the site is calling "The Eli Lilly Bandit." Someone inserted two paragraphs into the Homeland Security Bill protecting drug manufacturer Eli Lilly from lawsuits by parents who claim the company's vaccines caused their children's autism. Major suspects include Sen. Bill Frist, Rep. Dick Armey and the White House. NPR's Alex Chadwick investigates the mystery.