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NPR's Rob Gifford reports China's state controlled media declared today that the United States finally apologized for the surveillance plane accident and, no doubt, most Chinese people believe that. But the young, well educated, well informed elite -- China's future leaders -- know the U.S. letter stopped well short of an apology.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on a lawsuit filed by the estate of Margaret Mitchell, author of the epic Gone With the Wind. The estate objects to a novel by Alice Randall, scheduled to be published this June. Randall says the book, titled The Wind Done Gone is a parody of the classic novel, told from the perspective of a young slave girl. Lawyers for the Mitchell estate argue it's an unauthorized sequel. (8:00) (Post broadcast correction: The name of the attorney for Houghton Mifflin is Joseph Beck.)

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on a human rights trial underway in Guatemala that will test the independence of the country's judiciary system.

Travis Hugh Cully's new book is called The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power. It's about his days as a bike messenger in Chicago -- the pressure, pain and sometimes loss of pedaling through a major American city. Noah Adams talks with Culley about maneuvering through the city and the battle between bikes and cars.

Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams read from this week's listener letters. (4:00) To contact All Things Considered, write to "Letters," All Things Considered, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.

Noah Adams talks with 78-year Arthur Rodder of Montevideo, Minn., about the rising water in his town. The Chippewa and Minnesota rivers are expected to crest this Saturday -- reaching levels seen in 1997 when much of the region was flooded. Four years ago, Mr. Rodder lost the gas station he had owned for 52 years. This time he says he and his family are better prepared.

NPR's Robert Smith reports the crew of the EP-3 reconnaissance plane is back on American soil. The crew was welcomed to Hawaii in a simple arrival ceremony outside Honolulu. To many of the onlookers, members of the crew are heroes. The pilot, who landed the damaged plane safely in southern China, reassure family members that the crew was well and anxious to see them.

Lisa talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the report by the Navy's Court of Inquiry, which investigated the collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese fishing boat. The New York Times is reporting that the Court recommends AGAINST a court martial of the skipper.

19th Century composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt (frahnz list) was a deeply religious man who sometimes wrote music inspired by his faith. He wrote two pieces for piano dedicated to St. Francis; we'll hear one of them, Legend: St. Francis Preaching to the Birds, along with a brief explanation of the music by Tom Mastroianni, president of the American Liszt Society.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports from Birmingham, Alabama, where jury selection begins today in the trial of one of the last surviving suspects in the bombing of a black church in 1963. Thomas Blanton Jr., a former Ku Klux Klan member, is accused of helping to plant the bomb that killed four girls and injured more than 20 others.