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NPR's Tom Gjelten reports President Bush publicly warned China that Sino-American relations could be damaged if the EP-3 crew remains in detention. The administration and Congress face several key decisions on China and Taiwan in the next few months.

Journalist Anne Nivat is Moscow correspondent for the French paper Liberation. Two years ago, after the Russians denied her press access to Chechnya, she disguised herself as a Chechen peasant woman and snuck across the boarder. For six months she followed the war, traveling with the underground rebels and staying with families. Her reports were published in Liberation. Her new memoir is Chienne De Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War In Chechnya.

Host Bob Edwards takes a look at a new book about the singer and actor Paul Robeson. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson was written by his son, Paul Robeson Jr.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Richmond about the Virginia General Assembly trying to re-shape it's political districts after the 2000 census results. This is the first time that the GOP is the dominant party in the Virginia Assembly, and they may inflict some payback for years of Democratic control.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the crash landing of the movie theater industry, which was weighed-down by too many giant theater complexes. The industry overbuilt, and now some companies are going bankrupt.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new findings that the world's oceans are warming. Heretofore there has been strong evidence showing a warming of the atmosphere and land, probably in large part due to industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. The ocean was something of a mystery -- was it a heat sink or heat emitter? Evidence suggests human activity is warming it.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello used to be in the movie business as a publicist for a regional chain of movie theaters in the Mid-Atlantic states. He explains how the streamlining of the theater business could affect what you see.

Noah Adams talks with 78-year Arthur Rodder of Montevideo, Minn., about the rising water in his town. The Chippewa and Minnesota rivers are expected to crest this Saturday -- reaching levels seen in 1997 when much of the region was flooded. Four years ago, Mr. Rodder lost the gas station he had owned for 52 years. This time he says he and his family are better prepared.

President Bush, speaking on March 29th, explains why he decided the United States should not ratify the 1997 Kyoto treaty on Global Warming. Host Bob Edwards discusses the Global Warming Treaty with David Victory, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and author of the book, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming.

Host Bob Edwards describes two new studies out today in the journal Science. They conclude that global warming over the last fifty years is due to human-released greenhouse gasses.