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Host Bob Edwards Peter Kenyon about the standoff between the U.S.and China.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Mark Zdechlik of Minnesota Public Radio. They discuss today's long bargained-for agreement between Northwest Airlines and its mechanics union.

Host Bob Edwards talks to sports commentator John Feinstein about the exciting conclusion to golf's Masters Tournament. Tiger Woods just keeps on breaking the records.

Today is the second day of the eight day observanace of Jewish Passover. In recent years, the multi-billion-dollar kosher food market has grown dramatically. This ancient dietary system is intended to add holiness to the mundane act of eating. But, as Fred Mogul reports from member station WHYY in Philadelphia, selling kosher food is often complicated by factors other than religious law.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the debate within the Bush administration over federal regulations of the privacy of medical records. The new rules were issued by the Clinton administration but haven't yet taken effect. Tommy Thompson, the new secretary of health and human services, has the authority to kill them and will announce his decision by the end of this week.

Yesterday, a helicopter crashed some 250 miles south of Hanoi in Vietnam, killing 7 Americans and 9 Vietnamese on board. All the Americans are said to have been involved in the U.S. military's program to recover Americans missing in action from the Vietnam War. NPR's Emily Harris reports on the scope of the Joint Task Force operation, titled Full Accounting.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Peru on the results of yesterday's presidential elections there. No candidate won a majority of the vote, and run-off elections between the top two are expected.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports on a family business first profiled by NPR three years ago. He revisited the Neill family to see how they've managed to work through their differences and make their business a success.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about faltering relations between the U.S. and China. President Bush says that the longer it takes for this standoff to be resolved, the more serious repercussions it could have on relations between the two countries.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports that thousands of supporters of Russia's independent NTV television channel rallied in St. Petersburg yesterday, backing what the station's journalists call a fight against the Kremlin to save free media.