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The Cleveland Clinic has gotten approval from an independent review panel to proceed with what would be the first face transplant. But experience from other transplants suggests that there could be major psychological and ethical problems.

Maureen Corrigan says Anne Lamott's Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith continues her meditations on spirituality with a series of short essays. Corrigan says she's not preaching just to the choir, taking a "screwball approach to soul searching."

The recovered memory of one victim was the main evidence used to convict defrocked Boston priest Paul Shanley. Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick joins NPR's Madeleine Brand to discuss the use of this form of evidence.

Environmental activists and transportation officials in Las Vegas remain locked in a legal battle over the widening of Nevada's U.S. highway 95. Proponents of the road believe it will ease traffic congestion, while opponents warn that expansion will increase air pollution. NPR's Luke Burbank reports.

Michele Norris talks with the Rev. Jerome Fowler about a posthumous honorable discharge from the Army for his great-uncle, Chaplain Henry Vinton Plummer. Plummer, a former slave, was dishonorably discharged in 1894 for drinking with enlisted men and cursing in front of one man's children and wife.

We note the passing of Jimmy Smith, the musician who creatively linked jazz and the Hammond B-3 organ.

People from Detroit and Boston speak about the status of their retirement savings.

David McGinnis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses the status of the National Guard. The Guard makes up about one-third of the troops in Iraq, and McGinnis says that it was not designed for this kind of war.

Supporters and opponents of President Bush's proposals for private Social Security accounts are running campaign-style ads -- some of which include misleading claims.

In Kansas, debate continues over how and whether to teach evolution in schools. The state Board of Education appears likely to adopt a proposal to change the state's science standards to accommodate proponents of a new creationist movement.