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Jill McGivering of the BBC reports from Delhi, that thousands of wild rhesus monkeys are wreaking havoc there. Despite authorities' attempts to control the animals, the monkeys are multiplying.

Today President Bush conferred with China Vice Premier Qian Qichen -- the highest ranking official from Beijing since the administration took office. Qian's top priority is waylaying the proposed sale of advanced anti-missile technology to Taiwan. The Bush administration must decide next month whether to make the sale. Human rights was also a topic of discussion.

Noah Adams reads from listeners letters. Today, topics include dairy cattle being slaughtered on a farm in Wales due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the demise of the Mir space station, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Listeners should send letters to: Letters, All Things Considered, 635 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Or e-mail to atc@npr.org.

They're calling for safety inspections every 20 years with follow-ups every seven years.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports that the National Basketball Association's 50th All-Star game will be played in Washington D.C. on Sunday. The league has many stars, but no transcendent superstar has emerged since the retirement of Michael Jordan. One leading candidate is Allen Iverson, a guard for the Philadelphia 76ers who is known as much for his profane outbursts and violent rap lyrics as for his wondrous play.

Eric Whitney of High Plains News reports on an encouraging partnership between community police in a South Dakota town and the tribal police force of a nearby Indian reservation.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Doctors without Borders aid worker Kenny Gluck spoke to reporters today after his kidnapping last month in Chechnya. Gluck was freed over the weekend, after 25 days in captivity.

President Bush sent the centerpiece of his domestic agenda to Congress today, seeking approval of a tax cut plan valued at one-point-six-trillion dollars over the next ten years. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Capitol Hill.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on difficulties facing Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore in dealing with his own party in the Old Dominion. Gilmore was recently named chairman of the Republican National Committee, but the obstacles facing his attempts to end his state's car tax and to name his successor as governor loom large.

Commentator Rick Ridgeway recounts his return to a Tibetan mountain where twenty years ago an avalanche stopped his climb, and killed his friend Jonathan Wright. Ridgeway went back to Minya Konka with Wright's daughter, Asia, who had grown up without ever knowing her father. (4:00) Below Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure In Search of a Lost Father, by Rick Ridgeway is published by Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-6284-X.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on the national debate over minors' access to abortions. Many states have passed parental involvement laws. One mother says if the state had informed her, she could have talked her daughter out of having an abortion. Other parents say they should NOT be notified because the law forces some minors to go underground, where they get illegal and unsafe abortions.

NPR asked reporters in Dallas, Chicago and Boston talk to voters about what they think of the tax cut plan that President Bush sent to Congress today. Wade Goodwyn found a lot of support for the plan at the upscale North Park Mall in Dallas. NPR's Mary Ann Akers found mixed reviews of the tax plan at a state office building in Chicago. NPR's' Anthony Brooks visited Boston's financial district. He found support for the tax cut among people in the financial services business. But more average voters wondered whether the money would be better spent on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.

Noah and Robert read some of the letters All Things Considered received from listeners this week. (4:00) Write to: Letters, All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington DC, 20001 or send e-mail to atc@npr.org.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on a House committee hearing today on former President Clinton's pardon of financier Marc Rich. Members of the Government Reform committee, including some Democrats, said Mr. Clinton used poor judgment in pardoning Rich, who remained in Europe while he was convicted in absentia on tax evasion charges.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon's efforts to form a national unity government. Though nothing is final, much progress has been made in negotiations between Sharon's Likud Party and the more liberal Labor Party. In a national unity government, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak might be Sharon's Defense Minister and Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres could be Foreign Minister.

NPR Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg presents the second installment in her series on Great Cities. Today, a look at Chicago, rated by Money magazine to be America's most livable city in the Midwest. Susan finds out why one native, 14-year-old Eve Ewing, likes her city so much. For more on the city, check out the Money magazine Web site. And be sure to check out the Utne Reader's Web site for the article -- 'The 10 Most Underrated Towns in America.' (6:56 -

Commentator Katharine Mieszkowski says the Web has made it a whole lot easier to obtain all kinds of formerly private information.

Today, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report on the state of our juvenile justice system, with recommendations on how to improve outcomes for teens placed in adult jails. NPR's Michelle Trudeau visits some teens housed in three adult prisons in Arizona, and talks with the researchers who have been tracking how the youngest inmates are doing.

NPR's Anne Garrels has a report from Moscow on Anatoly Karachinsky, one of Russia's new millionaires.

Commentator Jonathan Kranz has some ideas about inventions kids -- and their parents -- could really use, instead of the over-priced, poorly thought out toys often found in toy stores.

Jean Betrand Aristide was inaugurated as Haiti's new president last week. NPR's Gerry (jerry) Hadden reports on the situation in Haiti after a decade of instability, coups and political corruption.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Anne Bancroft. Bancroft and Liv Arnesen have recently become the first women to cross Antarctica on skis. The last leg of their journey measures a relatively small part of the total distance-- though it is equivalent to the distance across France. And because of ice forming off the coast of Antarctica, their boat is leaving on February 22 -- with or without them.

Host Bob Edwards talks with country music star Rodney Crowell. Crowell was just 11-years-old when he got his first gig, playing drums alongside his father in a honkey-tonk. He went on to write songs and produce albums for some of country music's top artists, including Willie Nelson and Emmy Lou Harris. The Texan's latest album is The Houston Kid. Crowell says it's his autobiography set to music.

T-Pain’s latest project takes him out of the music studio and into the kitchen.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco dealt a blow yesterday to Napster, the popular online music-trading software. The court upheld a lower court's ruling that Napster's role in facilitating music-swapping contributes to copyright infringement, even though Napster does not profit from the transactions. NPR's Rick Karr reports.