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NPR's Senior Cultural Correspondent Susan Stamberg starts Morning Edition's March series on loyalty. She talks with George P. Fletcher of the Columbia University Law School. He is author of the book, Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships.

NPR's Mandalit DelBarco reports on community reaction to yesterday's shooting at Santana High School and what's being done to cope with the tragedy. Many people are stunned, especially since the school had instituted a number of so-called "safe schools" measures in the wake of the shootings at Columbine H.S.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on today's announcement by Commerce Secretary Donald Evans that there will be no adjustment of the census figures. Evans said the initial figures from the 2000 census will stand, a decision that dismayed Democrats and minority groups, particularly African-Americans. Democrats argue that more than three million people were missed by census takers, mostly in poor and urban communities. The decision not only affects the drawing of congressional and legislative district lines, but it could have an impact on financial assistance from the government.

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on the 20-year patents Canada gives to pharmaceutical companies. The wealthy firms have powerful influence over which drugs are developed, and who can get them. The issue is at the center of a contentious trial in South Africa over that country's laws which allow generic drugs for AIDS.

Rising premiums are forcing many employers to search out new, cost-effective ways to provide health care for their employees. NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on the future of health coverage in America.

Karen Schaefer from member station WCPN takes us to the origin of most of the nation's rock salt -- deep under Lake Erie.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Todd Barton, resident composer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. Barton's current project makes music from the most basic stuff of life.

The House of Representatives will vote tomorrow on the first trillion-dollar portion of President Bush's proposed tax cuts, and approval is expected. But the Bush administration and House Republican leaders want a show of bipartisan support to build momentum for a later showdown in the Senate. And, so far at least, only a handful of Democrats are expected to cross the aisle. NPR's David Welna reports.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on the findings of the 2000 census that the Hispanic population of the U.S. is growing faster than had been thought, and is roughly even with the black population. The official report on Hispanic population growth has not been released yet, but the increase was indicated in a chart released with another census report last week.

Last week the Taliban, the Islamic Militants ruling Afghanistan issued a decree to demolish all pre-Islamic religious images. Reportedly they have partially demolished the 175 feet and 120 feet seventh-century Buddhas 100 miles west of Kabul, considered two of the most important ancient works. A talk with the Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies At the University of Omaha, Thomas E. Gouttierre . He also served on the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission to Afghanistan, and is the American specialist on Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and South Asia at the meetings of the US-Russion Task Force on Regional Conflicts.