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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr uses the 2000 census to analyze President Bush's enthusiasm for a hemispheric common market.

The story of a former U.S. senator's involvement in the killing of women and children as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam may affect his ability to run as a candidate for president in 2004. In 1969, Robert Kerrey led a seven-man team in Vietnam that conducted a raid on what Kerrey says they thought was a Viet Cong meeting. He went on to receive a Bronze Star, and eventually became one of Nebraska's U.S. senators. Today, Linda Wertheimer speaks with former senator Kerrey about the story.

Commentator Stephen Lynch is the pop culture critic at the Orange County Register. He says after actor Robert Downey Jr.'s latest arrest, attempts to portray him as a tragic Shakespearean hero don't make sense. He's not that great an actor.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on the city of Caral, Peru, which some archeologists are claiming is the oldest city in the Americas. The buildings of the first city are said to 4,600 years old. That dates it to around the time of the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.

NPR's Madeline Brand reports on the House debate over the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act." The bill passed in the House by a vote of 252-to-172. President Bush has said he'll sign it if it crosses his desk.

As our last poet in our National Poetry Month series, Ofelia Zepeda reads her poetry. Zepeda is a professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her poetry is in both English and Tohono 'O'odham, her native language. She is a member of the Tohono 'O'odham tribe. Her tribe is an important part of her life and her poetry.

In most states, if you are poor and disabled, you can get Medicaid -- the state-run medical care program for the poor that is partly financed by the federal government. But in Indiana, it's not necessarily so. In Indiana, if there is a treatment that would fix your disability, such as a hip replacement or open heart surgery, you are not considered disabled. That's true even if you can't afford the treatment. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on this catch-22, and how the Indiana Supreme Court may finally decide a case on the issue that has been in the courts since 1992.

In the final installment of our Changing Face of America series on the changing face of sports and society, NPR's Uri Berliner travels to Orange County, California, to see how girls fast-pitch softball has changed. The game has become big business, with highly paid pitching and hitting instructors, and super elite travel teams that all but assure scholarships to major universities. But gone too are the days when softball was just a game, and many girls are feeling the pressure to succeed in the sport on and off the field.

The story of Robert Kerrey's lead role in the 1969 Vietnam mission that resulted in the deaths of Vietnamese women and children was written for The New York Times Magazine by journalist Gregory Vistica. He also co-produced a report for 60 Minutes II on the same topic. Linda Wertheimer talks with Gregory Vistica. (4:30) The story can also be found on the New York Times Web site.

Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel read letters from All Things Considered listeners. (3:00) To contact All Things Considered , write to All Things Considered Letters, 635 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20001. The e-mail address is atc@npr.org.