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- Despite the hype of the internet, businesses have been struggling to make money on-line. Analysts say on-line retailers on average were only able to bring in about $3000 dollars in sales last year. But, as Chris Arnold reports, some entrepreneurs are proving that there is big money to be made on the internet.

Last month, the nation's governors met in Palisades, New York to try to refocus the nation's education reform efforts. As NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports, most states now favor smaller, more focused efforts than the grander, national schemes to reinvent education that came from such meetings in the past.

Researchers hoped the human growth hormone could be used in reducing the signs of aging in people. But, as Wendy Schmeltzer reports, scientists now believe that while treatment with the hormone might make a person look younger, it doesn't appear to have any real effect on the health of those who take it.

The Federal Trade Commission says it will charge that Toys R Us has violated anti-trust laws by bullying manufacturers into selling exclusively to the giant toy retailer. But, as NPR's Jim Zarroli reports, Toys R Us says that it's only doing good business.

NPR's Neal Conan reports that federal authorities have seized two thousand Chinese-made weapons in a sting operation against a major smuggling ring. The sting involved 90 agents from the BATF, the Customs Service and the US Attorney's office in San Francisco, where authorities arrested seven people.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on revelations today that Hillary Clinton and Vincent Poster's fingerprints were found on billing records from the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas. These billing records had been misplaced, and upon their resurfacing, were subjected to a fingerprint search by Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr in the hopes of determining just who had handled the records.

- Jason Beaubien reports on how the anti terrorism legislation passed by Congress is affecting a legal immigrant in California. A provision in the law allows for the deportation of immigrants convicted of a felony. Even though the California man has lived in the U.S. legally for 33 years and committed a minor felony in 1972, he could still be deported.

NPR's David Molpus reports that only a tiny fraction of U.S. businesses extend benefits to "domestic partners," but in recent years that has started to change. Several hundred businesses have discovered that they can expand the traditional definition of family...and not hurt the bottom line.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that researchers have produced evidence challenging the idea that baby dinosaurs were dependent on their mothers. An analysis of pelvic bones from baby dinosaurs indicates the creatures could have been fairly mobile, and therefore independent, at a very young age.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on today's resignation of Jeffrey Vinik, the controversial head of the nation's largest mutual fund, Fidelity Investment's Magellan Fund. Vinik has come under fire for making a losing bet on U.S. Treasury bonds -- a decision that has lately made Magellan one of the worst performing stock funds.