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We return to the National Story Project and Paul Auster for more of your stories.

Scott talks with two of the thirteen people who took a Freedom Ride from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans in 1961. At the time he joined the ride, B. Elton Cox was minister living in High Point, North Carolina. Edward Blankenheim was a student at the University of Arizona.

Janet Heimlich visits two small, rural Texas towns that are struggling to remain viable as their industries, and populations, diminish.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that American diplomats in China met for a third time today with the detained U.S. air crew, characterizing them as in "very high spirits." But it's not clear how much longer the crew and their downed airplane will be held, as China holds out for an official apology from the U.S. government.

Lisa speaks with former State Department Ambassador-at-Large Robert Gallucci about how negotiators use language to manoeuvre through tense conflicts. Galluci is now Dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

On Friday the Senate passed a budget resolution that reduces the President's proposed tax cut and significantly increases spending on health care. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Health Policy Reporter Julie Rovner about what the Senate's plan would pay for.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports the Israeli government and many ordinary Israelis are holding Yasser Arafat personally responsible for the ongoing violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Eight years ago, following signature of the Oslo accords, the Palestinian leader was hailed in Israel as a partner for peace, but few Israelis apparently still hold that view.

President Bush continues his baseball romance by throwing out the first pitch at Milwaukee's new ballpark tonight. The stadium project was dogged by problems from conception to completion, including a fatal crane accident, a political scandal and major cost overruns. Chuck Quirmbach of Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

Robert Siegel talks to Helene Stapinksi, the author of Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, a book about growing up in Jersey City, N.J., where the whole town seemed to be on the take. (7:30) Five Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History, by Helene Stapinski, is published by Random House, 2001, ISBN # 0679463062.

NPR's Melissa Block reports the prosecution has rested in the trial of four men accused in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In presenting its case in New York, the prosecutors called dozens of witnesses and presented a range of evidence from tapes of wiretapped phone conversations to network news interviews with Osama Bin Laden. Some of the most powerful testimony came from people who were injured in the bombings.