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People from the drug industry, the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization are among those meeting in Norway today to talk about ways to make life-saving drugs more readily available to people around the world. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Andrea Dukakis of Colorado Public Radio reports on the effect of an economic downturn on people trying to get off of welfare. Although the number of people on welfare has decreased since the passage of a federal welfare reform law, a recession could cause caseloads to rise.

Spirituality, commentator Kristine Holmgren says, has become lazy: people shuffle through rituals appropriated form other cultures in search of an easy way to acheive spritual well-being. Confronted with an invitation to a sweat lodge, she suggests that people would do better to look for something higher by examining their own spiritual roots deeply.

Tax day, April 15th, is a time-honored tradition in the United States but in Communist-ruled Cuba, people are paying taxes for the first time. As Tom Gibbs reports from Havana - Cubans are less than enthusiastic about having to pay the state. In the past, the state has provided everything for the people free of charge.

Scientists have now found hundreds of genes that either cause disease directly or predispose people to develop certain diseases. This information has enormous implications for health and life insurance industries, but some worry it will be used to discriminate against people because of the genes they were born with. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

While New York City schools are phasing out coal-powered heat, New Englanders are apparently returning to coal as a way of keeping warm. Noah talks with Don Hysko, owner of Peoples Coal Company in Cumberland, Rhode Island. (3:00) Contact Peoples Coal Company at 1-800-729-5800.

Karen Brown reports on a new program in Massachusetts that's designed to give people on welfare something more than vocational training. Dubbed, The Clemente Course, it gives students a second shot at learning about the humanities. Its developers say the course makes students better people, as well as better workers.

A new poll asked people around the world how they feel about corporate globalization. NPR's Marcus Rosenbaum reports the poll showed few people grasp the total impact of globalization on their own living conditions, while many are pleased to reap the benefits of global influence.

A ruptured gas pipeline explodes near Lagos, Nigeria, killing at least 150 people, according to police. A Nigerian Red Cross official says the blast occurred as people attempted to siphon fuel from the state-owned line.

Two bombs explode in different parts of Baghdad, killing three people and adding to a recent rash of violence. Nearly 30 people died Friday after a series of explosions in the Iraqi capital.