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(Update)NPR's Jackie Northam reports on a lawsuit expected to go to court today against the Ford Motor Company and Firestone Tires. Plaintiffs in the case are seeking more than 100 million dollars in damages against the companies in the on-going dispute over safety problems with the Ford Explorer and Firestone tires.

America's premiere auto show opens to the public in Detroit today. Journalists, car company executives and auto analysts have reviewed last year's record breaking performance, and are now preparing for what looks to be a slower year. Jerome Vaughn of member station WDET reports.

Israel has lifted some of the security measures it placed on Palestinian territories, following violent protests that began last fall. That move may have helped prompt high-level talks between Israel and the Palestinians this weekend, but the area remains a point of tension between the two sides. NPR's Sara Chayes reports from Gaza.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports on the announcement by Linda Chavez that she has withdrawn her name as President-Elect Bush's nominee for Secretary of Labor. Chavez announced her decision yesterday, after opponents criticized her for helping an illegal immigrant. Chavez said she's a victim of the 'politics of personal destruction.'

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the latest uproar in Europe over depleted uranium bombs. NATO and EU officials met in Brussels to discuss the issue. The EU wants a further investigation into how harmful these weapons are. The Italians want a moratorium on their use a plan NATO refuses to consider.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Las Vegas on the attempts of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), to unionize Wal-Mart's nearly one million employees. But Wal-Mart's deep pockets and extremely high employee turnover rates are big obstacles for UFCW.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a White House announcement that President Bush will not implement the climate treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan. Democratic leaders in Congress and environmental groups promised to fight Mr. Bush on the Kyoto climate treaty and other recent policy reversals they call setbacks to the environment.

David Darman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports that the state legislature is considering its first-ever sales tax. New Hampshire's governor is pushing the idea, over the protests of shopkeepers who say a sales tax will change the way they do business.

NPR's John McChesney reports on the latest development in the race to provide music online. Four companies, including AOL and Real Networks, are working to form a service called Musicnet. This online subscription music service would compete directly with a project by Sony and Vivendi Universal.

One of the advances heralded by the mapping of the human genome moves a step closer this week. Differences in the way people respond to particular drugs is determined by the presence or absence of certain genes. NPR's Richard Harris reports that the identification of one of the genes responsible should make it possible to predict in advance who will benefit from a certain treatment and who will not.