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NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports Boeing plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Seattle. The aircraft manufacturer is the state's largest private employer.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on the urgent search for ways to end airport gridlock. Airline travel is surging and flight delays are becoming common. Federal authorities are ready to say what they believe the problems are and what can be done about them.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Pamela Schaeffer, managing editor of the National Catholic Reporter newspaper, about alleged sexual abuse of nuns by priests in the Catholic Church. According to reports written over several years by senior members of women's religious orders, the abuse has taken place in a number of countries including the United States.

"Ping-pong diplomacy" between the United States and China began 30 years ago. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is in Beijing to commemorate the event while Vice Premier Qian Qichen is in the United States. China warned the United States Tuesday not to sell arms to Taiwan and threaten 30 years of "ping-pong dimplomacy" that paved the way for formal bilateral ties between the United States and China.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from the Hague, where, for the first time today a high-level delegation from Yugoslavia visited the war crimes tribunal. The delegates tried to show that Belgrade is now cooperating with the court. They said they were prepared to send suspects to the tribunal who are not Yugoslav citizens, meaning Bosnian Serbs who have been living in Yugoslavia. The United States Congress has demanded that the new authorities in Belgrade cooperate with the war crimes tribunal by the end of this month or forfeit U.S. aid.

Commentator Bert Ely says yesterday's Federal Reserve interest rate cut was too little, too late, and that the Fed has a history of either under or overreacting. And he says Greenspan gets too much credit for what goes right. He says the market can do a better job than the Federal Reserve of keeping the economy on an even keel.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on a dilemma Americans are facing with drug treatments. Researchers are offering more new drugs designed to prevent, rather than cure disease. While that's good news, some of these drugs have serious side effects. How do clinicians and patients decide their risk of disease is high enough to justify taking a potentially dangerous drug for a disease they may never get?

The makers of old-fashioned wooden snowshoes are benefitting from an upsurge in interest in the winter sport. Sales of snowshoes have increased more than ten-fold in the past decade, mainly due to the introduction of hi-tech aluminum brands. The traditional activity of hunters and trappers is now the fastest-growing winter sport in the country. It takes about two weeks to produce a hand-made wooden snowshoe ... and the design has changed little in hundreds of years. Maine Public Radio's Susan Chisholm reports.

Russell Lewis of member station KPBS reports on what is known about the 15-year old suspect in the Santana High School shooting. People who knew him said he was an angry youth who'd been bullied because of his size and personality.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer provide some backround on the victims who were shot Santana High School yesterday.