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Melanie Peeples reports about the concern growing among Anniston, Alabama, residents about a chemical weapons incinerator the Army is building there. The U.S. must dispose of all chemical weapons by 2007 under an international treaty; residents of the small southern town fear that the facility may not be completely safe.

Today is the second day of the eight day observanace of Jewish Passover. In recent years, the multi-billion-dollar kosher food market has grown dramatically. This ancient dietary system is intended to add holiness to the mundane act of eating. But, as Fred Mogul reports from member station WHYY in Philadelphia, selling kosher food is often complicated by factors other than religious law.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the debate within the Bush administration over federal regulations of the privacy of medical records. The new rules were issued by the Clinton administration but haven't yet taken effect. Tommy Thompson, the new secretary of health and human services, has the authority to kill them and will announce his decision by the end of this week.

Host Lisa Simeone talks to Terry Ryan about her new book The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less. Terry's mother Evelyn entered hundreds of contests during the advertising heyday of the 1950s and 60s. The contests usually required a short poem praising a product, and sometimes the prizes were quite substantial. Ryan won thousands of dollars and hundreds of prizes during her long "career" as a jingle writer.

Yesterday, a helicopter crashed some 250 miles south of Hanoi in Vietnam, killing 7 Americans and 9 Vietnamese on board. All the Americans are said to have been involved in the U.S. military's program to recover Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War. NPR's Emily Harris reports on the scope of the Joint Task Force operation, titled Full Accounting.

We hear letters from our listeners, most about last Sunday's April Fool's Day story.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Peru on the results of yesterday's presidential elections there. No candidate won a majority of the vote, and run-off elections between the top two are expected.

Host Bob Edwards talks to sports commentator John Feinstein about the exciting conclusion to golf's Masters Tournament. Tiger Woods just keeps on breaking the records.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports that thousands of supporters of Russia's independent NTV television channel rallied in St. Petersburg yesterday, backing what the station's journalists call a fight against the Kremlin to save free media.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about faltering relations between the U.S. and China. President Bush says that the longer it takes for this standoff to be resolved, the more serious repercussions it could have on relations between the two countries.