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Barbara Mantel reports from an Early Head Start Program in New York City where toddlers in "Baby School" get close attention to their development and diets. Their parents, often poor teens or immigrants, are welcomed into the classroom to learn parenting skills and good nutrition.

Host Bob Edwards chats with sports commentator John Feinstein. They talk about which teams made it through the first weekend of college basketball's March Madness -- and which ones didn't.

Renee Montagne talks with bluesman R.L. Burnside about his new album Wish I Were in Heaven Sitting Down. She also speaks with Matthew Johnson, head of Fat Possum Records.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports that Americans in the 1940s embraced French cooking, and gave rise to a distinctly American style of cuisine in the decades since. She speaks with author and chef Patrick Kuh, about his book, The Last Days of Haute Cuisine.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports the Bush administration is determined to maintain Washington's decades-old isolation of Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell has told the Congress that despite some softening of U.S. policy towards Cuba under the Clinton administration, President Bush was committed to maintaining trade sanctions against Cuba as long as Fidel Castro remains in power.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Mike Fudge, senior scientist in Orbital Kinetics and Reentry Simulation for ITT Industries. He says that it is very unlikely that pieces of the Mir space station will hit any people when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere later this week. Fudge says that the Russians have a lot of experience with bringing spacecraft back to Earth and their previous re-entries have been safe.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the 15-year journey of the world's first true space station. Russian cosmonauts as well as politicians recall Mir with fondness: it provided truly new scientific information about long-duration space flight's effects on humans, as well a politically valuable comeback for the Soviet Union after the U.S. pulled ahead in the space race. Mir outlived its expected life span, and recently the aging orbiter has experienced a series of mishaps and accidents. Russia will "de-orbit" the craft this week and bring it back to a fiery grave somewhere, hopefully, in the Pacific Ocean.

Tonight, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Queen, Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, Solomon Burke, The Flamingos and Ritchie Valens will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We asked people at Concord Mills Mall in Concord, N.C., for their nominations.

Harriet Jones reports nursing homes in Connecticut are bracing for a one day strike. Workers say they're being forced to care for too many patients. They're asking for increased staffing as well as higher wages. They plan to hit the picket lines Tuesday morning.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that President Bush was busy yesterday meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Mori, as well as with the White House Energy Taskforce, and a coalition of African-American ministers.