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NPR's Joe Palca reports that scientists have for the first time deciphered the entire genetic code for an organism that has cells like humans. An international collaboration has sequenced the entire 16-chromosome genome of baker's yeast, which, like humans, have "eukaryotic cells." Researchers believe the achievement will help give scientists an extremely useful tool for learning more fundamental biological functions.

- It's Mother's Day so Danny decides to visit a maternity ward and chat with a few women and their partners who have just had their babies or are about to deliver.

drop from its charter all language calling for the destruction of Israel.

Congressional investigators say the Energy Department has overstated the business for U-S firms that was generated by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's trade missions overseas. Her critics in Congress have criticized the cost of the trips but O'Leary says they created a net gain in exports. NPR's John Nielsen has a report on a hearing today about the claims.

on the transformation of Hezbollah from a politically weak party to a force that far transcends the number of seats in parliament. Each day of fighting has turned the Lebanese to look to Hezbollah as an expression of the national will.

Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut announced al-the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Estimates are that about 150 Lebanese had been killed in the fighting and more than 400 wounded. Hafez Assad in Damascus said the ceasefire was not substitute of peace. Jennifer Griffin reports from Beirut.

NPR's Neal Conan reports that today is the 35th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. On April 17, 1961, a brigade of Cuban volunteers trained by the Central Intelligence Agency landed at a remote spot on the southern coast of Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The bungled invasion was a military and political disaster for the United States and President John F. Kennedy. And, while the Cold War is now over, the Bay of Pigs remains a rallying cry for the Castro regime, which still uses the threat of American intervention to justify political repression.

Mike Shuster examines the relative ease with which weapons grade nuclear material might be smuggled out of the former Soviet Union and into the United States.

up the Japanese computer chip market runs out in July -- Japan does not want it renewed, but the U.S. wants the agreement to be continued.

The man who made the Corvette Classic into a legend died Sunday. Zora Duntov (DUN-toff) was a Russian engineer and race car driver. Two years after the first Corvette appeared, Duntov was hired as an engineer at Cheverolet and began changing the Corvette into a "muscle car." He was 86. (1:30) (IN S