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The West is hammering Russia with sanctions. But, do they work? NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with Emma Ashford of the Atlantic Council.

If the war in Iraq is so unpopular, why aren't more people in the streets protesting it? The war does not seem to stir the public's emotion in the same way the Vietnam conflict did. What are we seeing in the polls?

Scott Simon talks with Stanford University mathematics professor Keith Devlin, the Weekend Edition "math guy," about how math makes Internet security possible. It's all about encryption.

President Bush was on the road Wednesday touting the $2.77 trillion budget he sent to Congress this week. The president found a receptive audience of business leaders in Manchester, N.H. But an independent survey of state voters at the end of December put Mr. Bush's approval rating at 36 percent.

The New Testament has recently been translated into Gullah, a language of slaves and their descendants that's still spoken by a few people along the southeast coast of the United States. Steve Inskeep talks about the project with Emory Campbell, a native Gullah speaker and one of the members of the translation team.

The Senate Armed Services Committee holds a briefing of Bush administration officials on the decision to allow a state-run company from the United Arab Emirates to run cargo operations at several U.S. seaports. Many lawmakers from both parties are angry that they weren't consulted before the deal was made.

With Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at his side, President Bush tells reporters at his ranch near Crawford, Texas, that the U.S. will continue to press in the United Nations for a resolution of the Middle East conflict. Over the weekend the Lebanese rejected a draft resolution proposed by the U.S. and France.

David Bransby, professor of energy crops at Auburn University, is an expert on switch grass, which President Bush mentioned in his State of the Union address. Bransby says switch grass is cheap to grow and provides a high yield crop that can make a lot of ethanol for a low cost.

A review of emergency plans for every major American city could be released this week. Those involved say it cites many gaps in planning for the next big disaster. The review was ordered by President Bush in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Interest and advocacy groups were quick to react to President Bush's nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge John G. Roberts to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.