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Through a robotic vehicle, a team of scientists are the first to witness up-close the eruption of an underwater volcano. The volcano is not too far from a gigantic undersea trench where one continent-sized piece of the Earth's crust is grinding underneath another.

Pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a ceremony on Monday night — but the surviving members of the band, perhaps in true punk style, are refusing to attend. Madeleine Brand speaks with former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, now a popular disk jockey at a Los Angeles radio station, about why the band has promised to be a no-show.

Iraqi police have found at least 85 bodies, killed execution-style, in a Shiite neighborhood in the Sadr City area of Baghdad. Host Alex Chadwick discusses the mass execution and ongoing Shiite-Sunni Muslim sectarian violence in Iraq with New York Times reporter Ed Wong, reporting from Baghdad.

The New York Times magazine ran a correction about their photo of former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. The correction acknowledged the film used for the shot distorted the colors of Warner's outfit. Political observers say the unflattering picture could hurt Warner's presidential ambitions.

Government prosecutors want a federal judge to reconsider her decision to ban crucial testimony and evidence in the sentencing phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui case. They say the aviation security witnesses and evidence are essential to the case.

The Department of Agriculture confirms that a cow in Alabama was infected with mad cow disease. It's the third case of mad cow disease detected in this country. Agriculture officials say the animal's carcass was buried and was not used for animal or human food.

Abortion rights advocates have announced a petition drive in South Dakota calling for a rejection of an abortion law recently signed by the governor. It would be the most restrictive such law in the nation.

As many as 700,000 Lebanese civilians have fled their homes as a result of the Israeli campaign against Hezbollah. NPR's Jackie Northam focuses in on a family from the town of Srifa, deep in south Lebanon, which came under heavy Israeli bombing in the opening days of the conflict.

Robert Siegel talks to Dr. Gary Wadler, a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency's Prohibited List and Methods Committee. In light of the doping allegations leveled against Tour de France winner Floyd Landis, Wadler explains the role testosterone and epitestosterone play in sports -- and how the levels fluctuate.

Guerrilla gardeners are going out at night to covertly plant colorful plants on public land in Central London.