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NPR'S Richard Harris reports that researchers have found new evidence that spring has been arriving in the Northern Hemisphere earlier since the 1970s. New research suggests that spring now arrives about seven days earlier than it did 20 years ago, and that could be a sign of global warming.

Commentator Marianne Jennings has the real scoop on consultants...they are either people who have been down-sized...who advise that a company grow, or out-of-work MBAs who set up shop in weird places and get contracts with the same companies who wouldn't hire them. Usually they advise the opposite of whatever the company is doing.

Susan speaks with Ron Blackwell, chief economist at UNITE...the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Workers...about garment sweatshops in America. Blackwell says that the number of sweatships is increasing throughout the country, and that conditions are reminiscent of sweatshops at the turn of the century.

The strategically important nation has been ruled by one man for the past 30 years, but President Suharto, is now 75, and recent rumors of his ill health are affecting the country's financial strength.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on MSNBC -- the new 24-hour cable news channel that offers CNN its first-ever direct competition. Despite 16-years of bad press, low ratings and slow profits, CNN is thriving in its niche market -- upscale, middle-aged, news junkies. MSNBC hopes to lure chunks of that audience away with round-the-clock timeliness and 24-hour linkage to an expansive internet website. The other networks will be watching closely to see how much slicing the 24-hour news market can bear.

and found him as defiant as ever about the role he wants to play at the Republican convention next month.

the director of the National Security Program of the Countil on Foreign Relations, about the possibility that the crash was caused by terrorism.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that in the United States, the USDA is instituting a new system aimed at increasing the safety of meat and poultry. Currently, inspectors rely on literally touching, smelling and looking at meat to determine whether it has been contaminated. Under the new system, scientific tests would be used to detect E-Coli and other microbes, and meat processors would be required to identify ways meat could become tainted, and take steps to prevent it from happening.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on two federal HMO programs for the elderly. People who join get not just medical care - they also receive social supports like home nursing aides -- but members are limited to the health care providers in the HMOs. The goal is to keep people as healthy as possible as long as possible while holding down costs. So far, at least, there are few complaints about the programs.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports that the Arab world is beginning to assess the potential damage to the peace process in the wake of last week's Israeli elections. At the meeting in Aqaba (AH-kuh-bah), Jordan, leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority called for Israel to continue the peace process.