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Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, famed for her extravagant shoe collection, today inaugurated a museum displaying her former footwear. Noah Adams tells us about it.

NPR's White House correspondent Don Gonyea talks to Noah Adams about President Bush's visit to Mexico today. On his first foreign trip as president, he joined Mexico's new president, Vicente Fox, at Fox's ranch.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports a significant decline in the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. According to the U.S. Border Patrol, the number of arrests at the busiest illegal border crossing, at Douglas, Ariz., is down 40-percent in the first six weeks of this year, compared to the same period last year.

Commentator Carol Wasserman offers an expose about migrant workers working in greenhouses where she lives. She says owners don't want workers to speak English -- so they won't know about bathroom breaks and the poisonous chemicals. She details the horrendous working conditions.

NPR film critic Bob Mondello reviews the Oscar nominated art film Pollock, directed and produced by — and starring — Ed Harris. It took him a decade to finish the movie. Mondello says it was worth it.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon on the US and British attacks on five Iraqi targets.

Melinda speaks with the curator the the Museum of Western Colorado about new forsensic studies being undertaken to try to determine if the 19th century notorious "cannibal" Alfred Packer killed the rest of his group in order to eat them...or simply ate them after killing the last one in self-defense.

Melinda talks with Krister Fardig, a sophomore at Brown University. Mr. Fardig is one of a group of players of a game, Sanctum, who bought it after the company went out of business.

The Supreme Court in Israel decided there should be no ban on the playing in that country of the music of Richard Wagner. Wagner was a known anti-Semite, who was a hero to Adolf Hitler, although he died fifty years before Hitler rose to power. Melinda speaks with Martin Goldsmith, former host of NPR's Performance Today, about why Wagner's music was unofficially banned in Israel for so long.

Melinda speaks with Antoinette Russell, who found several autograph books in the drawer of a table she bought at an auction.