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The Bush administration plans to uphold regulations issued in the last weeks of Bill Clinton's presidency requiring thousands of more businesses to report their releases of toxic lead into the environment. NPR's John Nielsen reports on the details of the announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christie Whitman.

Cisco Systems grew in breathtaking fashion to become one of the world's most valuable companies during the technology investment boom of the late '90s. But now Cisco is being hit hard by the economic slowdown. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, about the recent fluctuations of the stock market, and what's to be expected in the future.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports there is growing concern about damage to Machu Picchu, the spectacular, 500-year-old Inca ruins perched on a high mountaintop in Peru. Custodians of Machu Picchu may be more interested in immediate profit than preserving the priceless collection of temples and dwellings.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the Supreme Court on mushroom ads. A mushroom grower is trying to get out of paying a share of the cost of a national ad campaign organized by the government. United Foods says it can promote its product better with its own ads.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that the 2000 census reveals a boom in growth in America's coastal areas. Demographers say the population explosion is driven by relatively cheap housing prices, desire to live near water, and technological advances that allow telecommuting. Environmentalists worry that the development boom threatens fragile coastal ecological systems.

Reviewer Alan Cheuse tells us about a new novel by Allegra Goodman: Paradise Park.

Robert Siegel speaks with Daoud Kuttab, director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University, and columnist for the Jordan Times and the Jerusalem Post. Also joining the conversation is David Landau, senior editor of Ha'aretz newspaper in Tel Aviv. They discuss how Israelis and Palestinians view the political stances of the two sides, and why there has been such a failure in negotiations.

Jerome Vaughn of member station WDET reports on the surprise announcement today that Detroit's mayor Dennis Archer won't seek a third term. The popular Archer told reporters he won't seek re-election because of the demands of the office. "I have no life," he said.

Grace Spruch has a thousand stories about the squirrels she's been inviting into her fifth floor Greenwich Village apartment. She shares some of those stories -- and squirrel time -- with NPR's Margot Adler. (6:00) Squirrels at My Window: Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban Squirrels, by Grace Marmor Spruch, is published by Johnson Books. ISBN # 1555662579.