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This week, Polish-born Jan Karski, one of the first people to report an eyewitness account of the Nazi Holocaust to the West, died in Washington D.C. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Karski biographer Tom Wood. Wood is the author of Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust. Jan Karski was a liason officer for the Polish underground during World War II and a retired history professor at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He was 86.

Best-selling author Zadie Smith's new book, On Beauty, follows the lives of two mixed-race families in a fictional New England college town. Smith's previous work includes the novel White Teeth.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and the FBI will encrypt the video of Timothy McVeigh's execution. It's part of the effort to prevent any one to hack into the line and broadcast the images. Linda Wertheimer talks with Mark Rasch, Vice President of Cyberlaw at Predictive Systems in Washington D.C.

John Biewen of American RadioWorks tells the story of a modern military wife. Jeannette Mulligan is married to Sgt. Clinton Mulligan of the 82nd Airborne Division and lives at Fort Bragg, N.C. Despite better communications with the front, being an Army wife is no easy task.

Reporter Eric Roy of member station K-C-R-W in Santa Monica reports on an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which reflects on California's public image over the last century.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on the inaugural balls in Washington, D.C. Neither rain nor snow nor sleet kept the President and Mrs. Bush from their appointed rounds at the balls last night.

In 1806, over a camp fire and food, Nez Perce Indian chiefs made a map for William Clark showing a short and safe journey through the Rockies. The rare Indian map, one of only a hundred surviving, went overlooked for decades. Harriet Baskas tells the story as part of All Things Considered's Hidden Treasures Radio Project.

Brook Gladstone, co-host of NPR's On The Media, reports on the Internet game, Everquest, owned by Sony. Hundreds of thousands of people pay for the CD-ROM and a monthly fee to play. The game borrows heavily from Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, featuring gods, strange lands and monsters. (8:30) See www.everquest.com.

Kabila came to power in 1997, when his rebel army ousted dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. Linda talks with Jerry Bender, Professor of International Relations at U.S.C., and author of Angola Under The Portuguese.

Commentator Katie Davis recalls her visits to the National Zoo in Washington D.C. as a child, and later as an adult, and the experience of living near a sort of "jungle" within an urban setting.