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In the final installment of our Changing Face of America series on the changing face of sports and society, NPR's Uri Berliner travels to Orange County, California, to see how girls fast-pitch softball has changed. The game has become big business, with highly paid pitching and hitting instructors, and super elite travel teams that all but assure scholarships to major universities. But gone too are the days when softball was just a game, and many girls are feeling the pressure to succeed in the sport on and off the field.

When Jacqui Frazier and Laila Ali enter the boxing ring tomorrow night, they will revive a rivalry inherited from their fathers -- legendary boxers Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. But the women are fighters in their own right. The Kitchen Sisters -- producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson -- begin their two-part series on the fight with a profile of Jacqui Frazier. (8:47

Dizzy Gillespie's legendary 1942 composition fueled a jazz revolution called bebop.

U.S. News and World Report senior writer Joseph Shapiro reports on a new model of providing government assistance for the severely disabled. Called self-determination, it allows disabled people a much greater role in making decisions about their own care. Find out how a pair of twin sisters used self-determination to reunite after years of separation.

O. Winston Link, whose thousands of photographs of American railroads and rural culture documented an era, has died at the age of 86. Noah talks to Katherine Dodson, a church organist in Rural Retreat, Va., who was once photographed by Link, playing her organ as the Birmingham Special blew its whistle.

While standard solar panels can provide electricity during the day, this device can be a "continuous renewable power source" during the day and at night.

As part of NPR's Changing Face of America series, a report on how the practice of adoption is changing. Traditionally, adoptions have kept the identities of both biological and adoptive parents secret from each other. But increasingly families are entering into so-called "open adoptions" where they remain in some degree of contact with the birthmother as the child grows up. NPR's Neva Grant profiles a family in Portland, Oregon, that has two openly adopted children.

Many music fans perceive electronica as cold and impersonal. Washington, DC's Thievery Corporation is out to change all that. Producers Eric Hilton and Rob Garza borrow from such disparate styles as jazz, reggae, exotica and bossa nova; and merge them with dance-club beats. Liane joins the men behind Thievery Corporation at the swanky Eighteenth Street Lounge. (16:30) {NOTE: The new Thievery Corporation CD is titled The Mirror Conspiracy ESL Music catalog # 33}

Noah Adams talks with Emmanuel Madan and Thomas McIntosh about their sonic project, the Silophone. The two artists, who call themselves The User, have given an old grain silo in Montreal a new function by rigging it with broadcast lines and microphones. People can call into the Silophone or submit sounds over the Internet. (5:30) See www.silophone.net

NPR's Joe Palca sent us an audio postcard from Carnaval in Bolivia.