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In this excerpt from a speech to a Senior Center in Sun City, Arizona, President Clinton talked about the importance of education in building a bridge to the 21st century---hooking up every classroom to the Internet and making going to college more accessible and less expensive. He said he wants to make home-ownership easier, and wants to change the law so that people won't have to pay taxes when they sell their homes. "We want to continue the work to balance the budget," the President said...to keep interest rates down and keep the economy moving. He says the GOP budget he vetoed was wrong to end Medicaid and wrong to create a two-tier Medicare system, wrong to make cuts in Medicare, and wrong in lots of ways.

- San Fernando Valley, the home of valley-speak and a certain "L.A. attitude," wants to secede. At least some people there do, and they've got a bill in the state legislature that would make them a separate city--the sixth largest in the U.S. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the reasons behind the Valley's separation blues.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing that the world's most populous country- China-- is trying to find out how many people live within its borders. Six million census takers have begun to spread out across the country, trying to count a population that 10 years ago numbered some 1.13 billion people.. There are serious obstacles, other than the size of the country. Most people live in rural areas, where residents commonly defy the country's one-child policy. Many who live in the cities also might be reluctant to talk to census takers as they moved to urban centers from the impoverished hinterlands, without first obtaining the proper papers.

A Dutch firm is making the yacht. When it's done, it wont fit under a famous bridge in Rotterdam. The city decided to partially take apart the bridge and put it back together after the yacht passes.

For NPR's Margot Adler, it was the ride of a lifetime. After decades of looking up at the blimps that prowl the skies over New York City, Adler recently got the chance to drive one over Coney Island. View pictures from her ride.

Three locations along the Peoria riverfront are in the running to become the proposed site of the city's passenger rail station in its upcoming planning study.

New Orleans resident Sharon White is more determined than ever to rebuild her home. In January, she was devastated to learn that the city had decided against reviving her neighborhood. But now she has a building permit and she wants a FEMA trailer so she can begin the restoration.

Spottiswoode and His Enemies have long been a staple of the New York City scene. To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, the band released two new albums. Hear an interview and performance with lead man Jonathan Spottiswoode.

Popular food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier's new guidebook, Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris, takes readers on a delectable tour of her favorite food haunts in the City of Lights.

Philipp Meyer talks about his dark novel American Rust, and how the story of life in a Pennsylvania steel town reflects broad trends in blue-collar America.