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Noah talks with former Senator George Mitchell, special advisor to President Clinton on Northern Ireland, about the stalled Irish peace process in the aftermath of the IRA bombing in London friday night. -b- 2. RUSSIAN INVESTMENT - NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on one of the largest investors in Russia to date: the Coca Cola company of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Coca-Cola's efforts to do business with the Russians is a study in stubborness... a stubborn company facing off against the inertia of the Russian bureaucracy.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that a divorce case in New Jersey is raising questions about computers and modern relationships. A husband has charged his wife with adultery for exchanging steamy love-notes via electronic mail with a man she's never met. The wife charges the husband with an invasion of privacy for reading her e-mail without permission.(5:00) 4. RECALL OR UPGRADE - Commentator Stuart Cheifet says that the computer industry is unlike any other ...after consumers spend thousands of dollars on new products, those investments become obsolete in eighteen months...and rather than offer trade ins or recalls, you are just expected to spend more money.

Beth Fertig reports on an ambitious housing project begun in New York City by the then powerful Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. The housing project named Roosevelt Island. It was supposed to be a urban utopia....built to house rich and poor. But it has relied heavily on state support. So in these times of shrinking budgets, financial commitment to the island may be waning and residents are worried.

Since the Dayton peace accords were signed nearly two months ago, NATO has avoided linking itself too closely to the International War Tribunal investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. That position is changing. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that NATO forces in Bosnia are receiving new orders regarding suspected war criminals.

Commentator Lee Cullum says too many Americans have no acquaintance with the past. Cullum says most Americans don't know where Medicare or welfare came from or why, and even some of our elected representatives believe history began with Ronald Reagan. But she draws some hope from the fact that "Sense and Sensibility" is both a best selling book and movie.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow on one of the largest investors in Russia to date: the Coca Cola company of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Coca-Cola's efforts to do business with the Russians is a study in stubborness... a stubborn company facing off against the inertia of the Russian bureaucracy.

59 Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 15. FARAKHAN DOES IRAN - Robert talks with Hamid Araghie (aw-RAW-ghee), a journalist in Tehran about the arrival of Minister Louis Farrakhan in Iran and the reaction to a speech Farrakhan made yesterday at a rally celebrating the 1979 deposition of the Shah.

Noah talks with Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post, about negative advertising in this year's GOP presidential campaign. Kurtz says the campaign method can backfire if the ads are too negative.

Robert talks to Dr. Gary Hack, who teaches at the dental school at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Yesterday he presented a paper on his discovery of a previously undescribed muscle in the face. He says that it is attached behind the eye and to the top of the jaw and helps us to chew. Many anatomists are skeptical, saying that it is highly unlikely that there could be a muscle in the face that was not previously discovered.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Boris Yeltsin has announced he wants to continue as the Russian president. Yeltsin has apparently decided to run for re-election in June despite poor health and low ratings in opinion polls.