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Bob Edwards talks with car industry journalist Paul Eisenstein about the roll-out of the new Ford Explorer. He says Ford won't have too many problems convincing buyers of the cars' reliability.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Rob Gifford in Beijing. They discuss the latest developments in talks between U-S and Chinese officials over the incident of the U-S Navy plane grounded in southern China.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on the pandas' shrinking habitat in China. Sichaun (SITCH-oo-awn) province where the pandas are raised has been hit hard by human growth over the past ten years.

NPR's Jack Speer reports that many investors are learning they owe taxes on losing mutual funds.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea. They discuss President Bush's diplomatic efforts to end the stalemate between the U.S. and China. The Navy crew members are headed home this morning.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that more and more taxpayers are using filing services which offer instant refunds. But some consumer groups are warning against the practice, saying that instant refunds are high interest loans offered to those desperate for money.

NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on a promising form of solar energy which uses a mirror, a glass pipe, and a kind of oil to produce electricity that costs about five cents a kilowatt- hour. It's being researched now, but the new budget from the Bush administration would cut its funding.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the health of Dr. Ronald Shemanski, the resident physician for a group of 50 people at the South Pole. Shemanski has developed gall stones, and if he is not rescued soon, planes will be unable to reach him during the long Antarctic winter.

A coordinated series of worldwide parties commemorates the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on this date in 1961. NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to George Whiteside, the organizer of the event, and Tony Watson, a deejay who will link the parties with the music he plays on the Internet.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on how the spy-plane incident may affect longer-term relations between China and the United States. The two countries are still working out rules about trade between the two countries and potential U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.