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A look at the outgoing President's handling of US-China relations. NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the ups and downs of the past eight years with President Clinton's China policy. (

On his first full day in office, President George W. Bush started the day at Sunday service at Washington National Cathedral. NPR's Emily Harris reports that the party's over and the real work begins.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the people pushing the buttons and monitoring the blackouts--behind the scenes of the California energy crisis.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that officials in California a breathing a bit easier following results of this week's energy auction. The governor is also assembling a high powered panel to work on a long term solution to the crisis.

Fireworks welcomed in 2001, and the Australian centennial at Sydney Harbor. The event kicked off the yearlong celebration of the Australian Federation's founding on Jan. 1, 1901. Phil Mercer reports.

Brian Bahouth, of member station KUNR in Reno, reports that a few Californians have managed to escape the effects of the state's power crisis -- by staying off the power grid entirely.

Bob Beck of Wyoming Public Radio reports that Wyoming's economy is finally starting to improve after a decade of stagnation, just as the national economy may be heading in the opposite direction.

NPR's David Welna reports that as Republicans and Democrats argue over the appropriate size of a tax cut, Comptroller General David Walker is warning that the surplus may disappear after ten years.

Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center reports on the life of a Curandera , or "Healer," a woman who practices a form of spiritual and herbal medicine for migrant workers in a Mexican-American community in Oregon.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that President Bush's second week in the White House was marked by more outreach to Democrats. The trend continues, as today the President meets with House Democratic leaders at their retreat outside Pittsburgh.