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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that the chief of National Forest Service is stepping down. Mike Dombeck says his land management philosophy of stewardship over development is out of sync with the views of the Bush administration.

Host Renee Montagne talks with the authors of Pride and Promiscuity: The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen.

NPR's Rick Karr reports on a copyright battle between a freelance writer and The New York Times. Writer Jonathan Tasini says the Times didn't own his articles and therefore was not authorized to sell them to online periodicals and CD-ROMS with old issues of the newspaper.

Joel Quenneville has quit as coach of the Florida hockey team following a report about the handling of sexual assault accusations from a player for the Blackhawks during Quenneville's tenure there.

Commentator Susan Katz Miller remarks on life as the child of an inter-faith marriage. Her mother is Protestant. Her father is Jewish.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from the Capitol on Senate passage of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill. By a vote of 59-to-41, the Senate approved the measure. The House has passed similar campaign finance reform bills in the past, but opponents of this one hope to slow it down, at least. (4:26) For moe NPR News coverage of campaign finance reform, check out Money, Power & Influence.

President Bush wants access to the crew of an EP3 U.S. Navy spy plane, which made an emergency landing in southern China after a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter jet.

Some United Nations attorneys working as defense attorneys for accused war criminals at the Rwandan war crimes tribunal in Tanzania are accused of bribing their clients. It is the accused criminal's duty to choose his or her own attorney. By offering gifts to the accused, attorneys can improve their chances of being chosen. Robert Siegel talks with Dileep Nair, Undersecretary General for the United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services.

The Internet is spawning a host of new businesses trying to make a buck by providing access to the Web. One entrepreneur is trying to provide service to certain metropolitan areas by keeping a solar-powered airplane circling overhead at 50,000 feet -- sort of a satellite system that's not in outer space. Robert Sigel talks with Marc E. Arnold, chief executive of Angel Technologies in St. Louis, Mo. He joins us by phone from Los Angeles.

Music critic James Sullivan reviews What's Next to the Moon, a CD by Mark Kozelek. (4:00) The CD is distributed by the Badman Recording Company, San Francisco, Calif.; www.badmanrecordingco.com.

Robert Siegel talks about the American reconnaissance plane with James Bamford, author of two books about the National Security Agency: The Puzzle Palace, and the soon to be published Body of Secrets. (4:15) The Puzzle Palace is published by Viking Penguin. Body of Secrets is due for publication at the end of the month by Doubleday.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has postponed local elections in England and Wales for five weeks -- a signal that there will be no general election, at least until this summer.