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NPR's Emily Harris reports on a new Federal Trade Commission study into the responsibility of oil companies for the exceptionally high Midwestern gasoline prices last summer. The FTC concludes that the oil industry did not take illegal collective action to drive gasoline prices upward, but that individual companies did limit refinery production to maximize prices. In Chicago, Milwaukee, and other parts of the Midwest, prices at the pump exceeded $2 a gallon.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the 2000 census data shows that white people no longer hold the majority in California. In fact, there is no ethnic majority in that state, and demographers say this could be the future of other regions of the U.S. (3:56) For more, check out NPR News coverage of the 2000 census.

Commentator Fernando Gonzales views the 2000 census as a wake-up call to Americans who have failed to notice the growth of the Latino population and its increasing role in U.S. politics and culture.

NPR's David Welna reports that the House passed a bill to cut taxes for most married couples. Abolishing this so-called marriage penalty is part of the president's tax-cut plan.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash spoke with young millionaires who sold their AOL stock at just the right time.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Marc Levin, Daphne Pinkerson, and Daniel Voll, the producers of a new documentary on HBO titled Soldiers in the Army of God. The film documents a year in the life of three men involved in the violent fringe of America's anti-abortion movement. The men say the killing of abortion providers is justifiable because it protects the lives of unborn children. Renee's interview comes one day after anti-abortion activist James Kopp was arrested in Europe. Kopp -- one of the FBI's most wanted -- is suspected of killing Barnett Slepian, a doctor who provided abortions in Buffalo, New York. The documentary airs Sunday night on HBO.

To conclude Morning Edition's week-long series of college admissions essays, we hear Leah Knobler of Cincinnati talk about her relationship with her overachieving older brother, Jonah.

Host Renee Montagne talks with Gwen Macsai , co-creator of the new ABC sitcom What About Joan?, based on Macsai's own life experiences. Macsai is a former commentator for NPR.

NPR's Kenneth Walker reports from Beira, in Northern Mozambique, about regional flooding which is forcing people to leave their homes for the second year in a row. The United Nations estimates that floodwaters have forced 200,000 people to flee their homes. Relief agencies and Mozambique's government are working on ways to minimize damage from the annual flooding.

Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, reviews The Tailor of Panama, based on John Le Carre's novel. The film involves an British expatriate living in Panama and working as a tailor, and a British spy who's hoping he can tap into the tailor's connections in Panamanian high-society.