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Baseball season has begun, but commentator Kevin Murphy isn't one to sit under a hot days sun in a stadium watching baseball. He'd rather be at home watching a movie about baseball. He recommends two in particular: the documentary The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and 61*, the fictionalized account of the record-breaking home run season of slugger Roger Maris.

Alan Cheuse reviews A Hole in Texas by 88-year-old Herman Wouk, a fictional account of a scientist involved with the Texas-based Superconducting Super Collider project. Set in the 1990s the novel has both Hollywood and Congress woven into its plot.

The intricacies of accounting fraud can be confusing, if not dull. But not always. New York Times writer Kurt Eichenwald's new book on corporate deceit and betrayal in the Enron scandal, Conspiracy of Fools, is full of riveting detail. He tells Jennifer Ludden about the reporting process.

British historian David Cesarani's new book, Major Farran's Hat, is a nonfiction account of the final days of the British mandate in Palestine.

NPR's Margo Adler reports that Swiss banking authorities and officials from several Jewish organizations signed an agreement last week that may provide a full accounting of funds deposited in Swiss banks by European Jews in the years before the Holocaust. Holocaust survivors and families of holocaust victims have not been able to trace the funds until now due to the secrecy laws governing Swiss banks.

Sad accounts of babies being dumped to die prompted many areas of the country to designate places where parents could safely abandon their newborns and escape prosecution. However, hardly any infants have been turned in this way. NPR's Jerome Vaughn reports from Detroit that supporters of the idea say they just need to back their good intentions with publicity.

Doctors and abortion clinics are receiving their first shipments of the abortion pill that was authorized for use in the U.S. in September. In France, where RU486 was invented, it was put on the market -- with difficulty -- in 1988. Now, it accounts for one-third of all abortions there. NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Paris that French abortions are actually decreasing; still, pharmaceutical companies want little to do with the pill.

A federal judge approves a partial settlement between WorldCom and the SEC in which the company accepts allegations of fraud and agrees to close monitoring of its corporate governance and its accounting controls. The judge defers a decision on penalties. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

President Bush says he will continue to press for changes to Social Security, despite signs that many Americans are opposed to it. At a White House news conference, Bush says he is committed to private accounts but admits they will not fix the financial problems that loom ahead for Social Security.

According to the Pentagon, improvised explosive devices account for half of all combat deaths in Iraq. The Pentagon says by summer, all U.S. military vehicles in Iraq will have factory-produced armor. The military also is turning to high-tech solutions, including drones that can detect items buried in the ground.