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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.

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.

People who are 30-year-olds this year were part of the first generation to learn about AIDS at the same time as they were learning about sex. NPR's Jason Beaubien has this report about four 30-year-olds from the Boston area, who reflect on coming of age in the shadow of AIDS.

The events All Things Considered reported for the past 30 years entered the consciousness of 30-year-olds. We asked a number of them to remember major news events.

Singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco is 30. She introduces a song off her new album, Reckoning/Revelling, that is about living the last 30 years. (1:30) Reckoning/Revelling by Ani DiFranco is on Righteous Babe Records.

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.

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

Last night NPR's Jackie Northam attended funeral services for Veronica Bowers, the young missionary woman who was killed when the Peruvian air force mistook Bowers's small plane for that of a drug runner's.

Scott talks to Weekend Edition's entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell about the prospect of a strike by the Writers Guild of America. If no agreement is reached with studio executives by May 1st, the men and women who write scripts for movies and TV shows will walk off the job. The last time this happened was in l988, and network television still hasn't recovered.

Scott speaks with Phil Jackson, coach of the LA Lakers and former coach of the Chicago Bulls, about Michael Jordon, basketball, philosophy AND his new book, "More than a Game." (Seven Stories Press).

From member station KUOW in Seattle, Jason Paur reports on the bountiful harvest of Chinook salmon in the Columbia River this spring. Native Americans took advantage of the largest Chinook run in 70 years, and thousands of sports fishers had their first opportunity to fish for Chinook since 1977. The season ended yesterday.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the beginnings of union organization among illegal workers, a previously non-organized part of the workforce. Aubrey focuses on hundreds of workers at a poultry plant in Selbyville, Delaware, that are beginning to speak up.