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Journalist Anne Nivat is Moscow correspondent for the French paper Liberation. Two years ago, after the Russians denied her press access to Chechnya, she disguised herself as a Chechen peasant woman and snuck across the boarder. For six months she followed the war, traveling with the underground rebels and staying with families. Her reports were published in Liberation. Her new memoir is Chienne De Guerre: A Woman Reporter Behind the Lines of the War In Chechnya.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead begins a new six-part series we call Avant-Garde Made Easy, highlighting some of the important modern jazz mavericks of the so-called Avant Garde. We begin the series with pianist, composer, and band leader Sun Ra.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Samuel R. (Sandy) Berger, who was National Security Adviser during the Clinton administration, about whether the 24 Americans in Chinese custody are really hostages. The Bush administration is not using the term "hostages".

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports President Bush publicly warned China that Sino-American relations could be damaged if the EP-3 crew remains in detention. The administration and Congress face several key decisions on China and Taiwan in the next few months.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports the president of Taiwan has urged the United States to use wisdom in ending its standoff with China over the detained American crew. Taiwan could well be affected by the outcome of this crisis. The island wants to make a major arms purchase from the United States. Beijing opposes the sale.

NPR's Michelle Kelemen reports that thousands of supporters of Russia's independent NTV television channel rallied in St. Petersburg yesterday, backing what the station's journalists call a fight against the Kremlin to save free media.

Commentator Joel Achenbach says everyone needs to wander a bit more.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello used to be in the movie business as a publicist for a regional chain of movie theaters in the Mid-Atlantic states. He explains how the streamlining of the theater business could affect what you see.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on new findings that the world's oceans are warming. Heretofore there has been strong evidence showing a warming of the atmosphere and land, probably in large part due to industrial emissions of greenhouse gases. The ocean was something of a mystery -- was it a heat sink or heat emitter? Evidence suggests human activity is warming it.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Skopje, Macedonia, on today's visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Meeting with Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski.