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In the final part of our Changing Face of America series on homeschooling, NPR's Chris Arnold reports on some of the companies that are marketing educational materials to homeschool families. Parents must decide on a curriculum for each of the some $2 million homeschooled children in the country -- and there are plenty of companies willing to sell them textbooks, video courses and 8th Grade in a Box CD-Roms.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Peter DeWitt, spokesman for the Portland, Maine, Public Works Department, about a shortage of places to dump snow. DeWitt says Portland has received 76 inches of snow this year, 16 inches above the norm.

Host Bob Edwards takes a look at the festivities that will occur in schools today, to celebrate Read Across America Day. It appears that many school principals are willing to go to great lengths to get their students to read more.

Critic Bob Mondello thinks out loud about a theme that keeps cropping up in recent motion pictures-- Reality TV. The movies 15 MINUTES and SERIES 7 are the latest in the trend.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports that testimony will continue today in the naval Court of Inquiry on the accident between a U.S. submarine and a Japanese fishing boat.

President Bush has delayed for 60 days a possible strike by Northwest Airline's mechanics. Other major airlines facing labor troubles see today's federal intervention as a signal the president may help them avert strikes too. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.

Commentator Patrick Rucker says many of the St. Patrick's Day celebrations in his native Ireland have been cancelled because of the foot-and-mouth scare. But he believes St. Patrick would have liked a little less commotion anyway.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Sen. Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee. The surgeon and Chairman of the African Affairs subcommittee says the United States needs to provide significantly more money to fund AIDS treatment programs in developing countries, especially in Africa. He says the U.S. has "a moral obligation to do everything possible to have AIDS drugs flow to those countries at as low a price as possible."

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the criticisms of President Bush's faith-based initiative and his policy on power plant emissions. The latest blow came yesterday in New Jersey, and distracted from the president's efforts to promote his budget and tax cut proposals.

With the continuing violence, convincing tourists to come to Israel has been a hard sell these past few months. Israeli officials say tourism is down about 60 percent. With that in mind, they've launched a new ad campaign, urging people to visit "the Israel you don't see on the nightly news." Uzi Gafni, who represents Israel's ministry for tourism in North America, talks with Linda Wertheimer.