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In the second of four Radio Expedition reports, NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the search in Central Africa for an elusive member of the ape family. It may be a gorilla, a very large chimpanzee, or perhaps another apelike creature that's unfamiliar to scientists. The mysterious creature is referred to as "the Bili Ape," after the area in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the search is taking place.

NPR's Rick Karr reports on a copyright battle between a freelance writer and The New York Times. Writer Jonathan Tasini says the Times didn't own his articles and therefore was not authorized to sell them to online periodicals and CD-ROMS with old issues of the newspaper.

Jeff Lunden reports from New York on the opening of Stones in His Pockets, a play about celebrity worship in a small Irish town, now getting enormous buzz on Broadway. It stars just two actors who together play fifteen parts on a nearly-bare stage. The playwright says she wouldn't have gotten it staged unless she wrote it that way.

Anthony Kuhn reports American negotiators from the U.S. - China talks on the April 1 midair collision returned home as Chinese President Jiang Zemin met with the family of the Chinese fighter pilot who died in the collision. Adding to U.S. - China tensions are the continued arrests of Chinese-Americans who are visiting China and next week's decision on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

NPR's Religion Correspondent Duncan Moon reports on African-American churches around the country that are consolidating into large "mega-churches." The groups are channeling their combined wealth into an entrepreneurial spirit that fuels massive redevelopment projects such as constructing low-income housing, homeless shelters, day care centers, gyms, and job-training centers. The churches are wrestling with their missionary mandates to revitalize both individuals and the communities where they live.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports as the American crew returned to U.S. soil in Hawaii, President Bush made a statement from the White House welcoming them home. He pointedly said that the incident had not advanced constructive relations with China. And Mr. Bush stressed that the U.S. had done nothing to cause the accident with a Chinese fighter that led the American plane to make the emergency landing on Hainan Island.

Will a new, 200-million dollar motor speedway revitalize the fortunes of Kansas City, Kansas? Local officials and residents hope so, since taxpayers have picked up most of the tab for the Kansas Speedway, which can accomodate 75,000 spectators. While some predict an economic boom from the new track, other are not so confident. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports.

Laura Carlson of Colorado Public Radio reports on the controversy over a stone tablet of the Ten Commandments, mounted in Grand Junction's City Hall. A group of citizens has filed a lawsuit to have the tablet removed, on the grounds that it's an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. The city council will decide tonight whether to leave the monument and go to court, or move it.

NPR's Julie Rovner reports on the good news and bad news for Medicare. The good news is experts believe the program will remain solvent for an additional four years. The bad news is that though both Congress and the White House have pledged to reform Medicare, the task remains a monumental one. And as more baby boomers edge toward retirement, the longer lawmakers wait to act, the more difficult reform may become.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports on President Bush's White House meeting with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Today, the president said he will not to try to "force peace," in the Middle East. Mr. Bush also said that America's role should be to facilitate talks and not dictate a timetable. For his part, Prime Minister Sharon said he wants an end to violence before he'll resume talks with the Palestinians.