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Daniel meets up with this 22 year old African American comedian who now stars in a new ABC program called "Buddies". The sit-com has received some poor reviews but Chappelle is drawing positive attention. Much of Chappelle's humor focuses on racial issues, but Chappelle says he's not trying to offend people - he just wants them to think.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that a tobacco company, the Liggett Group Inc., has agreed to a settlmenment of a major class-action lawsuit. The settlement marks the first time a tobacco company has broken ranks with the industry to settle a major lawsuit individually. As part of the settlement, the company agreed to pay up to $50 million over 25 years for smoking-cessation efforts. The company also agreed to accept restrictions aimed at reducing smoking by young people. The company is also negotiating to settle lawsuits by states attempting to recover medical costs from smoking-related illnesses.

of the French abortion pill RU-486, and are hoping to test it on two thousand American women. Advocates say the strategy will speed up approval of the drug, which has long been use in Europe .

about security challenges facing the Clinton administration... including threats to the peace negotiations in the Middle East.

Liane Hansen speaks with Linda Garmon, producer of the documentary Spy in the Sky," for the PBS series "The American Experience." The program is bout the U-2, the elegant spy plane developed by the CIA during the Eisenhower dministration. In the most well-known incident, a U-2 was shot down over Russia n May, 1960, and pilot Francis Gary Powers was taken prisoner. The U-2 also ook the pictures that fomented the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. U-2's are till flying today.

Increasingly, pet owners are chosing to have proper burials for their dearly departed and as a result, pet cemeteries are springing up across the country. But, this growing industry has not been well regulated and in Virginia, lawmakers are trying to do something about it. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

The craft of cheerleading has changed dramatically throughout the years as cheerleaders have become increasingly athletic. And with that athleticism has naturally followed more injuries - many of which are serious if not life threatening. Susan Goodman reports.

Puzzle master Will Shortz presents an on-air quiz to this week's inners, Una (YOO-nah) and Mort Creditor from Mission Hills, Kansas. (They isten to member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri.)

Daniel talks with Leila Gupta of UNICEF, who heads that group's trauma recovery team in Rwanda. UNICEF is spearheading an effort in Rwanda to help the children of that country cope with the emotional consequences of genocide.

the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, about the possible ramifications of a recent Counsel on Foreign Relations recommendation that the 1977 ban on using U.S. journalists as CIA cover be reconsidered.