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Commentator Bill Lessard -- an experienced dot-com employee himself -- says that all those perks you hear about at technology companies don't really add up to as much as workers think they're getting.

From member station WNYC in New York, Amy Eddings reports that 35-thousand Verizon Communications employees are still on strike despite an agreement that was reached over the weekend. Approximately 50-thousand of the telephone workers in New York and New England who were on strike returned to work yesterday after the agreement was reached.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on George W. Bush's campaign stops in Wisconsin and Iowa yesterday. While visiting schools and veterans, the Texas governor has been speaking to voters about education and military spending.

Jerome Vaughn of member station WDET reports on the move by Ford Motors to stop producing trucks and start producing tires at three of its plants -- this in response to the recall of Firestone-Bridegstone tires on some Ford trucks that was instituted last week.

NPR's Melissa Block reports from Hannibal, Missouri on the Gore-Lieberman campaign. The Democratic candidates have been making stops, giving speeches, and fielding questions along the Mississippi River since their convention ended last week.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the latest development on the Russian submarine that sank in the Arctic Barents Sea more than a week ago. After more than a week of desperate attempts to rescue the crew, on board the Kursk, yesterday the Russian navy formally announced that they were all dead.

From member station WHYY Mhari Saito reports that the city of Philadelphia is trying to shut down a neighborhood once associated with the radical separatist group MOVE. Fifteen years ago, dozens of homes were unintentionally destroyed when police dropped an incendiary device on a neighborhood house in an attempt to end a stand-off. The city rebuilt the homes, but now says they are unsafe.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on Air France's decision to ban smoking on all its flights. The company banned cigarettes on its domestic and European flights a decade ago.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the latest development in the last minute attempt to rescue the sailors, trapped in the Russian submarine that sank to the bottom of the Arctic Circle off the Barents Sea more than a week ago.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the opening of Godzilla 2000. Unlike last summer's flop, this movie takes the giant lizard back to his Japanese cinema roots: with dubbing included.