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NPR's Elaine Korry reports from San Francisco on yesterday's much-needed stock-market rally. Even if the comeback doesn't last, many say it has at least renewed the confidence of the average investor.

Tomorrow NASA will launch its latest mission to Mars: a small spacecraft designed to study the red planet from its orbit. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on NASA's efforts to minimize the risk of failure.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that the newly independent country of Georgia has been encountering resistance as it tries to distance itself from Russia, which feels that it still has claims over this formerly Soviet region.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that big businesses, such as the Boeing Corporation and Caterpillar, are dismayed that President Bush's budget would deeply cut a government finance program for foreign buyers.

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.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports the wireless Web is a sensation in Japan, where more people use their mobile phones to access the Internet than use personal computers. Like the 1980s Walkman craze, portable Web surfing devices caught on first with young people.

As the AFL-CIO finishes its winter meeting today in Los Angeles, union leaders see the economic downturn as an opportunity to make inroads into part of the economy where their recruiting goals have fallen well short. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Los Angeles.

As lawmakers return home for a week-long recess, they'll be gauging their constituents' opinions on President Bush's tax cut plan. NPR's David Welna reports on the tax cut debate.

Two weeks after a 7-point-7 magnitude earthquake hit India, some villages are just beginning to receive tents to temporarily replace their damaged homes. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports from Varsamadhi.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports from San Francisco, where the power crisis and rising heating bills have caused record numbers of poor households to apply for financial help to pay their utility bills.