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Rex Doane of NPR's On the Media has the story of corporate anthems -- elaborate songs and even shows that were geared not to the customer, but to the employees. The songs -- like a school fight song or a national anthem -- were meant to elevate morale.

NPR's David Welna reports the Senate has approved a federal budget with a tax cut that falls about $400 billion short of President Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut plan.

Storyteller Bailey White details adventures in trying to find her car as exhaust fumes cloud her senses and conjure up hallucinations of the underworld.

The Senate approved a budget last night, but with a tax cut smaller than President Bush asked for. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the spy plane incident and US-China relations with David Shambaugh, professor of international affairs at George Washington University and a China specialist at the Brookings Institution; and Don Oberdorfer, professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

How many monthly fees are too many for one consumer to handle? With the advent of more and more communications technology -- like DSL service, cell phones, pagers, cable TV, and now satellite radio -- the number of bills for tech-savvy households is growing. Robert Siegel talks with Howard Horowitz, president of Horowitz Associates in New York about whether this trend can continue.

Despite months of work by the state of California to bail out its largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric, the company filed for bankruptcy this morning. PG&E's financial problems are the direct result of the California state law that deregulated the electricity market. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports.

The White House has so far refused to apologize to the Chinese for the reconnaissance plane incident, a stance that pleases conservatives in the president's own party. But NPR's National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson reports that some want the president to take a still harder line.

The Swiss Army is eliminating its bicycle brigade -- which has been a part of the Swiss force for 110 years. Noah Adams talks with Major General Christian Schlapbach, deputy chief of the Swiss Army and the former head of the bicycle regiment.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg talks with David Carley, a developer who made, then lost, some $40 million. He says his downfall was over-ambition and under-attention to details. This is part two of Susan's series of discussions about money, airing Tuesdays in April.