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NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that the Senate has overturned a law that would have required businesses to protect their workers from repetitive stress injuries. Business leaders say this so-called "ergonomics rule" would cost them too much.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on a new report from a U.N. panel on global climate change. It says that extreme weather events, like huge snowstorms and floods, are becoming more frequent, and may be signs of the slow process of global warming.

Amateur weatherman Steven Fybish shares some unusual knowledge -- Fybish can recite from memory exactly how much snow has fallen in New York City for each of the last 130 years.

NPR's Senior Cultural Correspondent Susan Stamberg starts Morning Edition's March series on loyalty. She talks with George P. Fletcher of the Columbia University Law School. He is author of the book, Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships.

Vice President Cheney went home from the hospital today, one day after undergoing an operation to reopen an artery to his heart. The angioplasty was performed at George Washington University Hospital, not far from the White House. Doctors there canceled plans for a briefing today on the vice president's condition. Mr. Cheney is expected to return to work later this week, although White House staff were not discussing any details of his case. NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea reports.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Dr. Stuart Seides, a cardiologist at the Washington Hospital Center, about stress and heart disease. He says frustration and the body's physiological response to it is the key factor in determining whether a job has deleterious effects on health. A high level of responsibility does not automatically mean that that a job is stressful. Seides says if a person feels in control of his or her job, stress should not impact them severely.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports from Beijing that China is boosting its military budghet by almost 18 per cent --its biggest increase in decades. Announcing the increase, China's Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng said the increase was needed because of drastic changes in the military situation around the world.

NPR's Robert Smith reports that students of Princeton University and their parents are gasping in relief -- over tuition. The university plans to bolster its financial aid so that undergraduates won't have to take out student loans. This will likely give Princeton a keen edge in attracting the best students, and it has other Ivy League schools scrambling.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on President Bush's efforts to gain support for his budget plan, before it comes to a vote in Congress on Thursday. Yesterday Mr. Bush met with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and spoke to traders on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a new study showing no link between a commonly used childhood vaccine and autism. The 14-year-long study in California kindergartens failed to find an association between a rise in reported autism cases in the state and the MMR vaccine. The research appears in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.