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The Bush administration's decision to halt standards for arsenic levels in drinking water is giving local water companies a bit of a reprieve. Under the new standards a municpal water company would have to increase its standards from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion. In most cases that would have meant building new water filtration systems. George Hansen is the general manager of Chesapeake Ranch Water Company in southern Calvert County, Md. Noah Adams speaks with him about the changes he would have to make under new standards and what they are doing now to treat arsenic.

Race relations loomed large in the news -- and in the lives of 30-year-olds. They talk about being bussed as children and valuing diversity as adults.

The Pentagon today was at pains to clarify its policy towards contacts with the Chinese military, saying they would continue but be evaluated case by case. Officials were also intent on dispelling the notion that yesterday's mixed messages on the subject indicated any breakdown in the department's internal lines of command and communication. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon.

Most 30-year-olds grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons, and on ABC, Schoolhouse Rock.

Between 1965 and 1975 the divorce rate doubled. According to one survey -- a third of young adults say they're parents divorced before they turned 18. For 30-year-olds, to be a child of divorce was -- for the first time -- not unusual. It has influenced their childhoods and the ways that they make decisions about their adult lives.

For today's 30-year-olds, the music of the 1980s was the soundtrack of their teen years. Joshua Levs of WABE in Atlanta counts himself as a member of Generation X. He has this look at the music of the '80s.

The United States Army will load its M-16 rifles with a new kind of ammunition -- bullets that are lead-free. Noah Adams talks with Michael Dette, chief of technology demonstration at the Army Environmental Center in Aberdeen, Maryland.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Athens, where Pope John Paul begins a three-nation pilgrimage tomorrow following the journeys of St. Paul the Apostle. It will be the first visit to Greece by a pope since the Great Schism that split Christianity into eastern and western branches in the year 1054. The population of Greece is overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian. A spokesman says the Greek Orthodox Church wants the pope to make what he called a humble and bold gesture of love to help heal the deep distrust between the Orthodox world and Roman Catholic world. After Greece, the pontiff will visit Syria and Malta.

Thirty-year-olds talk about the television shows they remember best, including re-runs of The Brady Bunch.

In its first three months, the administration of President Bush has kept its distance from the power problems of California -- making clear it wanted the state to work out its own problems. But today the president issued a directive to federal agencies in that state instructing them to turn off escalators and keep air conditioning at a low level this summer. President Bush also used the occasion to restate the government's commitment to conservation as a key element of its policy for controlling energy costs and avoiding shortfalls. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House.