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With the ousting of president Slobodan Milosevic earlier this month, Yugoslavia is poised to re-enter the world community. But NPR's Anne Garrels reports the change is causing anxiety among Kosovar Albanians who fear their push for independence will suffer as much under the new government as the old.

A sailor who died in the suspected terrorist bombing of the U.S.S. Cole will be buried at Antietam National Cemetery -- a Civil War cemetery that has been closed since the Korean War. The National Park Service agreed to make an exception for Fireman Apprentice Patrick Roy, whose family lives near the site. Noah interviews John Howard, Superintendent of the Antietam National Battlefield, in Sharpsburg, Maryland.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports AT&T's corporate board is still weighing various restructuring options, ranging from sticking with the status quo to a plan that would break the company into several parts. The AT&T board is expected to vote this evening and make an announcement Wednesday morning. Some Wall Street analysts were skeptical of the more radical restructuring proposals because they represented a retreat from the company's recent strategy of selling packages of local, long-distance, wireless and internet services.

Office equipment company Xerox is in trouble. Today, Xerox reported its first quarterly loss in sixteen years. As NPR's Jack Speer reports, the company is selling off assets and laying off employees to try and reduce its debt load. It is also seeking to regain dominance of the market for copiers and low-price printers, after ceding much of the territory to aggressive competitors such as Ricoh, Canon and Hewlett Packard.

Commentator Andrew Lam talks about the housing crunch caused by the digital gold rush in the San Francisco Bay area. Scarce apartments are going to the highest bidder. Some people are renting the right to sleep in someone's dining area or walk-in closet. And the dream of home ownership Lam's family and other immigrants had has faded.

Linda chats with Robert C. Alexander, co-author of Fumbling the Future : How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, about how the Xerox Corporation squandered an opportunity when the company was the first to build a personal computer which used a mouse and a graphical user interface. (5:00) Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer, by Robert C. Alexander and Douglas K. Smith is available through e-publisher IUniverse.com. See http://iuniverse.com.

To meet a recent state law, all California hospitals must be made earthquake safe by the year 2030. The problem is 75-percent of the hospitals need work and the estimated price tag is 26-billion dollars. With two-thirds of the state's hospitals already operating in the red they're looking to the state and federal governments to help pay for the retrofitting. Kathy McAnally reports.

Commentator Lee Stringer is trying to keep his optimism about American democracy. So this year, he's avoiding coverage of the presidential race.

NPR's Jonathan Miller reports on the latest from Peru, where President Alberto Fujimori has announced a nationwide search for disgraced former intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos' exposure in a corruption scandal last year weakened Fujimori's control of the country and led him to announce he will resign from the presidency two years early.

Mark Zdechlik of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the Justice Department's attempts to force Northwest Airlines to sell its controlling interest in Continental. The case could impact other pending airline mergers.