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We read a few of the early entries in our "Inane Use of the Third Person" contest.

One more step into turning the telephone line into a multi-media communications channel. AT&T announced yesterday that it will soon be offering its 90 million customers five hours of free access to the Internet every month for one year. It's estimated that more than 15 million of the company's subscribers already own computers and modems.

A Connecticut legislative committee yesterday heard testimony from one citizen who thinks the state should replace "Yankee Doodle" as the official state song. Certain references, say the citizen, are dated and sexist. We do a top-to-bottom analysis of the song to highlight its other possibly objectionable lyrics.

Linda talks to Dr. William Bright, president and founder of the Campus Crusade for Christ and this year's winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Begun in 1972 by investor Sir John Templeton, the prize is awarded each year to a living person who has shown "extraordinary originality in advancing humankind's understanding of God and/or spirituality."

between Ireland and Britain. The meetings got off to a rocky start yesterday... some parties boycotted the first day, while Jerry Adams of Sinn Fein was barred due to the IRA's renewed bombing attacks.

LeFebvre about his efforts to capture alive a cougar that's been roaming in a Wilmington, Delaware suburb. LeFebvre, who's had experience hunting cougars in the West, has been on this hunt seven days a week since late December 1995.

In a straight party line vote the Senate Banking Committee today approved a measure to indefinitely extend the Whitewater committee. NPR'S Jon Greenberg reports Democrats argued that the further into this election year the committee hearings go, the greater the appearance of political motives. In vain, Democrats also appealed to Republicans' sense of history and fairness by pointing out that when Republicans asked for an early end date on the Iran/Contra investigation, Democrats agreed. Today, though, Republicans said too many questions remain and too many witnesses are unavailable until the conclusion of the McDougal-Tucker trial by the Independent Counsel.

of missile tests off the coast of Taiwan.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that a date has been set for all-party peace talks to begin in Northern Ireland. The talks will begin June 10 following elections in May. Reaction by the various factions has been generally positive. The leader of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, has asked for more specifics about the talks.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that a new biography of Stalin supports a long-suspected theory on his death, 43 years ago today.