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NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that tensions between Taiwan and mainland China are escalating to the point where China is on the verge of conducting war games in the Taiwan Strait. The threat comes only weeks before Taiwan's presidential election, and is seen an attempt to intimidate Taiwanese voters.

big trade in the National Hockey League. Wayne Gretzky, the league's all-time leading scorer, was traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the St. Louis Blues. Gretzky had hoped to be traded to a Stanley Cup contender.

Daniel speaks with playwright Emily Mann who's play 'Greensboro: A Requiem' tells the story of a massacre in 1979, where members of the Ku Klux Klan shot and killed 5 demonstrators who were protesting Klan activities. The play is based on interviews of survivors of the attack, as well as of Klansmen who took part in it. The play is being staged at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey.

Princess Diana has announced her agreement to the request from her husband Prince Charles for a divorce. Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb about what the impending divorce might mean for Britain and the Monarchy.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that the use of political polls has grown tremendously in recent years, but their ability to tap into the public mood may be declining as voters become more volatile and more and more are refusing to answer pollster's questions. But generally, polls have been fairly accurate. It's their interpretation that's often wrong. (7:30) CUTAWAY 1A 0:59 1B 3. CONGRESS -- Members of Congress came back to Washington this week after a three week hiatus. And Commentator Mickey Edwards wants know if the republican members will continue the fight for the GOP agenda. It was only two months ago that budget battles raged between the Congress and the White House. Mickey Edwards wonders if Republicans on the Hill will get back on track with their agenda: the balanced budget and taxes. He wonders what they will get accomplished in the next few months, especially now that the GOP Presdiential candidates have taken the spotlight and shifted focus of the Republican agenda.

Danny speaks with Dr. David Grimaldi, Curator and Chairman of the Entomology Department at the American Museum of Natural History. Dr. Grimaldi led an expedition to a site in New Jersey where they discovered precious ancient flowers embalmed in amber from the Cretaceous period, nearly 90 million years ago. Grimaldi says these are undoubtedly the most completely preserved flowers from the time of the dinasours.

Danny speaks to Trevor Page, of the U.N. World Food Program, who is in Pyongyang, North Korea, organizing his groups efforts to help North Korea fight widespread famine. The food shortage was caused in part by severe flooding last year. A cold winter has made a bad situation even worse for N.Korean citizens.

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Linda Gradstein reports on details emerging about the Arab- American who crashed his car into a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem. After initially calling the incident an accident, Israeli security authorities now say he was a terrorist. Separately, Israeli police released the names of the two Hamas activists in Sunday's suicide bombings.

NPR's Ina Jaffe has the final segment in a report on how brain injured people try to compensate for the memory loss and other cognitive disabilities they've suffered. While medical advances have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of brain injured people, these survivors have few places to turn, and little money to pay, for this kind of difficult rehabilitaion.