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NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US has confirmed it is sending a second aircraft carrier to international waters near Taiwan. The move is to underline US insistence that China and Taiwan resolve their differences peacfully, as required by longstanding agreements.

Mark Gillespie of Alaska Public Radio Network reports on the increasing media and corporate hoopla surrounding the annual Iditarod dogsled race. Once a solitary match of human endurance and skill against nature's worst, it's become a huge logistical operation akin to a military campaign, complete with platoons of camp followers eager to borrow from race's notoriety.

NPR's David Welna reports on the very different perceptions in Havana and Washington of the Helms-Burton bill, signed into law today by President Clinton. Backers of the bill in Congress say it will hasten Fidel Castro's downfall by tightening the US embargo. But Cuban officials, while denouncing the bill, say they don't expect it to have much economic impact. In Washington, President Clinton's top adviser on Cuba says the bill gives the president less room to maneuver in dealing with Castro.

NPR's John McChesney reports that one-time rivals Microsoft and America on Line reached an agreement today that would put AOL on every computer running Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system. The agreement comes less than a year after America on Line and other on-line services argued strenuously that the advent of the Microsoft Network last summer would give the software giant an unfair advantage over the on-line providers.

NPR's John Burnett reports that in the wake of yesterday's Texas primary, gay Republicans are attending GOP precinct conventions to counter the Christian Right's anti-gay influence. This represents the beginning of a concerted campaign by gay Republicans to influence the party platform.

three American servicement for the rape of a local schoolgirl -- a crime that set off a firestorm of local discontent against the U.S. military presence there.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the 60th anniversary of Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports.

about security challenges facing the Clinton administration... including threats to the peace negotiations in the Middle East.

the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, about the possible ramifications of a recent Counsel on Foreign Relations recommendation that the 1977 ban on using U.S. journalists as CIA cover be reconsidered.