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The Army Corps of Engineers has blown up a levee along the Mississippi River in Missouri to help ease flooding in Illinois. Floodwaters are pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland. Preliminary readings indicate the action saved the tiny town of Cairo, Illinois.

The Syrian government has been trying to keep protesters off the streets by making arrests — hundreds of them. But people are demonstrating anyway. The latest group of protesters waved bread to show solidarity with the besieged city Daraa, where residents have been cut off from food and water and other basic needs.

David Albahari's Leeches is a full-steam-ahead, 300-page run-on paragraph told energetically by a nameless narrator. Set in Belgrade in the late 1990s, the novel peers into the dark currents flowing just beneath the surface of human experience.

Now that Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, has been killed, some are calling for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. But Peter Bergen of The New Republic disagrees, he argues that Afghanistan still needs a U.S. presence, and its possible that we just might win.

At issue is whether release of a photo might inflame anti-American sentiment, or whether it's more important to show any skeptics that "we were able to get him and kill him," as CIA Director Leon Panetta says. Should a photo be made public?

Private-sector employers added 179,000 jobs in April, according to payroll processing firm ADP. That's lower than the 195,000 analysts had expected and the 207,000 private jobs created in March. The ADP report can provide insights into the government's monthly jobs report for April, which is due out Friday.

Republican presidential hopefuls are launching the campaign season with the first GOP debate on Thursday. But the South Carolina Republican Party had trouble convincing some politicians that the debate is a necessary step to the Oval Office. Many of the most recognizable potentials are opting out. Host Michel Martin speaks with NPR's Ken Rudin about what this debate means for the 2012 presidential race.

Should the White House release post-mortem photos of Osama bin Laden? And who might star in a possible bin Laden movie? Host Michel Martin hears from the Barbershop guys as they take their seats early this week: author Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, and Republican strategist Ron Christie.

Scientific tools help us define the world we live in. As they change, our view of reality changes. Without them, our development would stagnate.