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Scott talks to Hans Rockenwagner, chef and owner of Rockenwagner's Restaurants in Santa Monica and Venice, California about the annual frenzy in Germany over the delicacy known as white asparagus.

President Bush, speaking on March 29th, explains why he decided the United States should not ratify the 1997 Kyoto treaty on Global Warming. Host Bob Edwards discusses the Global Warming Treaty with David Victory, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and author of the book, The Collapse of the Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the political search for Japan's new prime minister.

The only video of the Navy crew boarding the plane that took them off Hainan Island last night was on CNN. The video crew sent its pictures using a videophone together with a satellite phone powered by a car battery. Linda Wertheimer talks with Eason Jordan, chief news executive and newsgathering president for CNN in Atlanta.

Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the movie version of Bridget Jones's Diary. The book by Helen Fielding sold five million copies around the world, and Turan says it promises to be quite successful on the big screen as well.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on a lawsuit filed by the estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of the epic Gone With the Wind. The estate objects to a novel by Alice Randall, scheduled to be published this June. Randall says the book, titled The Wind Done Gone is a parody of the classic novel, told from the perspective of a young slave girl. Lawyers for the Mitchell estate argue it's an unauthorized sequel. (8:00) (Post broadcast correction: The name of the attorney for Houghton Mifflin is Joseph Beck.)

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the Bush administration's adoption of broad regulations that restrict access to medical records -- regulations that were written by the Clinton administration.

Travis Hugh Cully's new book is called The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power. It's about his days as a bike messenger in Chicago -- the pressure, pain and sometimes loss of pedaling through a major American city. Noah Adams talks with Culley about maneuvering through the city and the battle between bikes and cars.

Commentator Charles Eisendrath notes that many, many people hold trout fishing licenses.

Noah Adams talks with 78-year Arthur Rodder of Montevideo, Minn., about the rising water in his town. The Chippewa and Minnesota rivers are expected to crest this Saturday -- reaching levels seen in 1997 when much of the region was flooded. Four years ago, Mr. Rodder lost the gas station he had owned for 52 years. This time he says he and his family are better prepared.