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Host Bob Edwards talks with singer-songwriter John Hiatt during his recent visit to NPR's Studio 4A. Hiatt performs songs from his new Vanguard CD, Crossing Muddy Waters.

Jill McGivering of the BBC reports from Delhi, that thousands of wild rhesus monkeys are wreaking havoc there. Despite authorities' attempts to control the animals, the monkeys are multiplying.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews –Poisonville— the new CD by singer Ronny Elliott.

In the final story in Morning Edition's series on literacy, NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports from Knoxville, Tennessee, on the inability of many college students to write college-level essays. Many four-year colleges are raising admissions standards or scaling back on remedial classes, so a good deal of remedial education now takes place at community colleges. Sanchez examines why American high schools graduate so many students who are ill-prepared for the rigors of college work.

Host Bob Edwards talks to NPR's Tom Gjelten in Washington, D.C. and Michelle Kelemen in Moscow about the expulsion of some 50 Russian diplomats from the United States, in response to the Robert Hanssen spy case. Several of the diplomats are suspected of having ties to the former FBI agent, who is accused of spying for Moscow over a 15-year period.

NPR's David Molpus reports on yesterday's Supreme Court decision allowing employers to force their employees to forego a court trial, and head straight for binding arbitration in cases of job disputes. The idea is to reduce the caseload of an already clogged legal system, but employee advocates say arbitration usually gives the employer an unfair advantage.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports that aerospace company Boeing will move its main offices from Seattle, where they've been for 85 years, to either Chicago, Denver, or Dallas-Fort Worth.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on how the plentiful, pliable metal aluminum inspired art and industry in the 1900s. An exhibition now in New York City explores aluminum's use in aerospace, fashion and household goods.

Hes been writing about the criminal-justice system for about a decade. For his new book, Going Up the River: Travels in Prison Nation he looks at the consequences of our countrys prison boom. The prison-industrial complex is our nations biggest growth industry. Hallinan currently writes for The Wall Street Journal.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington that the Bush administration formally announced today it has expelled four Russian diplomats reported to have had links to the alleged American spy, Robert Hanssen. In addition, the United States is asking more than 40 other Russian diplomats to leave. U.S. officials say they've been concerned for a long time about Russia maintaining a large contingent of intelligence officers in the United States, working under diplomatic cover.