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NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on one of the largest investors in Russia to date: the Coca Cola company of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Coca-Cola's efforts to do business with the Russians is a study in stubborness... a stubborn company facing off against the inertia of the Russian bureaucracy.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on what Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke is calling new 'rules of the road' for arresting war criminals in Bosnia. Names of suspected war criminals must be sent to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague...only those approved by the tribunal may be detained. NATO meanwhile is laying out its plans for arresting war criminals. NATO has been criticized in recent days for failing to detain indicted bosnian serb officials who've been making very public appearances in NATO controlled areas in recent days.

to pressure Rwandan refugees to go home.

of the Republican presidential race and what effect it might have on his re-election bid there.

president of the Flight Safety Foundation, about the expensive and difficult process of locating the "black boxes" from the Boeing 757 that crashed into 4,000 feet of water off the coast of the Dominican Republic. 189 people, mostly Germnan tourists, died when the plane went down without warning last Tuesday.

Noah talks with former Senator George Mitchell, special advisor to President Clinton on Northern Ireland, about the stalled Irish peace process in the aftermath of the IRA bombing in London friday night. -b- 2. RUSSIAN INVESTMENT - NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on one of the largest investors in Russia to date: the Coca Cola company of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Coca-Cola's efforts to do business with the Russians is a study in stubborness... a stubborn company facing off against the inertia of the Russian bureaucracy.

Noah talks with Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post, about negative advertising in this year's GOP presidential campaign. Kurtz says the campaign method can backfire if the ads are too negative.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that a divorce case in New Jersey is raising questions about computers and modern relationships. A husband has charged his wife with adultery for exchanging steamy love-notes via electronic mail with a man she's never met. The wife charges the husband with an invasion of privacy for reading her e-mail without permission.(5:00) 4. RECALL OR UPGRADE - Commentator Stuart Cheifet says that the computer industry is unlike any other ...after consumers spend thousands of dollars on new products, those investments become obsolete in eighteen months...and rather than offer trade ins or recalls, you are just expected to spend more money.

Commentator Stuart Cheifet says that the computer industry is unlike any other ...after consumers spend thousands of dollars on new products, those investments become obsolete in eighteen months...and rather than offer trade ins or recalls, you are just expected to spend more money.

Beth Fertig reports on an ambitious housing project begun in New York City by the then powerful Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. The housing project named Roosevelt Island. It was supposed to be a urban utopia....built to house rich and poor. But it has relied heavily on state support. So in these times of shrinking budgets, financial commitment to the island may be waning and residents are worried.