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Liane speaks with mother-daughter team Christina Luper aker and Christina Baker Kline, authors of a new book on feminism called "The onversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living Feminism," ublished by Bantam Books.

warned both political parties to avoid seeking to impeach federal judges for unpopular rulings or making political issues of judicial decisions.

- Despite the hype of the internet, businesses have been struggling to make money on-line. Analysts say on-line retailers on average were only able to bring in about $3000 dollars in sales last year. But, as Chris Arnold reports, some entrepreneurs are proving that there is big money to be made on the internet.

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NPR's John Ydstie reports the economy showed signs of renewed strength in the first three months of the year. The Commerce Department says the nation's gross domestic product grew 2.8% in the first quarter, a faster rate of growth than most analysts expected. Healthy levels of cnsumer spending and business investment.

Mexico and reports on the business of smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. Crossing the border has grown more difficult in the past few years... causing smugglers to drastically raise their prices. The U.S. is preparing to tighten security at the border even more in response to incidents of the past month. Yesterday, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a version of an immigration bill that would reinforce the U.S. border patrol and crack down on smuggling.

NPR's Cheryl Corley visits the Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently filed a major sex harrassment suit against Mitsubishi, charging that female employees had been victims of years of harrassment by male employees. Employees are divided over whether the charges are justified, and the dispute has made life very tense at the plant, one of the largest employers in town.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that international relief agencies are agonizing over whether to return to Liberia. Most aid groups were forced to abandon the country last month, when renewed fighting shattered the country's fragile peace. Mostly teenage militias ransacked relief agencies' offices and stole their equipment and supplies. Aid workers worry that even if the situation stabilizes and they do return to Liberia, there are no guarantees that things won't deteriorate again.

where he has been granted political asylum...

Commentator Lee Cullum says American corporations seem confused about where their chief allegiance should be...too many think they should serve their shareholders at the expense of everybody else--that's faulty thinking. Business leaders share three vital constituencies--customers, employees and shareholders.

The United States continues to complain that China is NOT cracking down on operations that copy computer software, movies and music. NPR's John McChesney reports that the piracy business continues to boom in China, costing American software manufacturers millions in royalties. But counterfeiting operations also are hurting Chinese software businesses, who say they cannot compete with the low priced-software available on the black market.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that Ghana today reluctantly agreed to permit an overcrowded freighter dock and unload more than three thousand people who had fled the fighting in Liberia. For the past ten days several West African nations, including Ghana, had refused to let the Bulk Challenge unload its desperate passengers, many of them hungry and sick. But after pressure from the United Nations and others, Ghana allowed the refugees to disembark today. A new camp will be built for them, but Ghana declared that it will not accept any more refugees.