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The Swiss Army is eliminating its bicycle brigade -- which has been a part of the Swiss force for 110 years. Noah Adams talks with Major General Christian Schlapbach, deputy chief of the Swiss Army and the former head of the bicycle regiment.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports the population of the Intermountain West, including Nevada, Arizona, Colorado Utah and Idaho, is the fastest growing in the country. And the region is experiencing growing pains. The boom is stressing water supplies, air quality and the general quality of life.

NPR's Ivan Watson in Monrovia reports there are few signs of recovery or reconstruction in Liberia four years after the end of the country's long civil war. Now, the United Nations is threatening to impose sanctions on the Liberian government.

The standoff with China over the EP-3 reconnaissance plane has the United States in a very difficult diplomatic position. Noah Adams speaks with Kenneth Lieberthal, currently a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, and formerly senior director for Asia on the National Security Council. They discuss some of the positions the U.S. could take against China. Lieberthal says they all carry their share of problems.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow on a recent performance by an unusual ballet troupe from the Siberian city of Perm. The company, calling itself the Fat Ballet, features hefty ballerinas weighing, on average, 200 pounds.

The White House has so far refused to apologize to the Chinese for the reconnaissance plane incident, a stance that pleases conservatives in the president's own party. But NPR's National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson reports that some want the president to take a still harder line.

NPR's Margot Adler reports that more than a dozen states have joined a push against telemarketing. New York just enacted its law -- and more than a million people have signed up.

Attorney General John Ashcroft went to Oklahoma City today to meet with survivors and relatives of victims of the 1995 Murrah Federal Building bombing. Ashcroft said he wanted to talk with the people about the calls from some of them for closed circuit television of the execution of bomber Timothy McVeigh. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

People from the drug industry, the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization are among those meeting in Norway today to talk about ways to make life-saving drugs more readily available to people around the world. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

Judicial Watch, a conservative citizen watchdog group long known as the nemesis of the Clinton administration, today announced it is training its guns on a new target. The group has accused Congressman Tom DeLay of Texas, the third ranking Republican in the House, of fraudulent fundraising. NPR's David Welna reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Tim Boggan, historian for the United States Table Tennis Association. Boggan was a member of the U.S. table tennis team that made the historic visit to China in 1971. He recounts the team's reception in China and the matches against the Chinese players.

NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Vicky O'Hara reports on today's White House meeting between President Bush and Jordan's King Abdullah. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict topped the agenda.