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Scott talks with Lee Sullivan, the Mayor of Panama City Beach Florida. Reporters, posing as representatives of Prince William, tried to convince the Mayor that the Prince was coming for a spring break visit. Fortunately Mr Sullivan discovered the ploy -- and turned the joke around.

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Host Bob Edwards talks to Tom Rosenstiel, Director of The Project for Excellence in Journalism. The group has released a new study that compares news coverage of the early days of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on the beginnings of union organization among illegal workers, a previously non-organized part of the workforce. Aubrey focuses on hundreds of workers at a poultry plant in Selbyville, Delaware, that are beginning to speak up.

Host Bob Edwards and NPR's Cokie Roberts discuss the education bill moving into the Senate this week. Despite pledges of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats are gearing up for some fierce debate.

Despite the negative publicity of the foot and mouth epidemic in England, British officials are celebrating higher than expected tourism over the past spring break. But as NPR's Julie McCarthy reports, tourism in rural communities is still hurting.

NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca recently visited Cambodia where it's estimated that 70 percent of the men smoke cigarettes, including Buddhist monks. Palca meets with a physician, whose work with Buddhist monks has led to smoking cessation for a large part of that population, and it's affecting local Cambodians as well.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Brussels on the ongoing trial of war crime atrocities in Rwanda. This is the first time war crimes have been tried outside of an international tribunal.

For the first time in more than two decades, Americans can view art from Iran.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez tells the story of three African-American women who graduated last year with PhD's in mathematics from the University of Maryland at College Park. White males make up the bulk of mathematicians in the country, and these women are working to break the mold.