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Noah talks to author David Shields about women who wear glasses and the erotic appeal such women hold for Shields. Shields reads passages from his book "Remote" on this subject. He says glasses say to him that the woman is so beautiful, so perfect that she can risk covering up that beauty. He also fantasizes about the moment a when a woman with glasses removes them before going to bed; a moment the stranger can only imagine.

Noah Adams speaks with Richard Rapaport who visited the military operation in Bosnia to see what high tech gear is being employed in that peacekeeping effort. Commanders can receive video from practically anywhere there are soldiers deployed in the field. And a huge remote controlled tank is used to detonate mines.

Netday '96 gets underway in California tomorrow. Netday is an ambitious, volunteer effort to get the state's schools wired for internet access. President Clinton, who called the event a "high-tech barn-raising," plans to be on hand as a local high school is wired.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says what you wear could really tell the world who you are and what you think. He wonders if the juror at the Whitewater trial who dressed in a Star Trek uniform everyday might have been offering a social commentary by suggesting we all should should dress differently.

Today is the Ides of March. To mark it, we read from Shakespeare's tragedy, "Julius Ceasar," in which Brutus eulogizes the man he helped murder.

Linda speaks with Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former deputy director of the FBI, about how the Islamic extremist organization Hamas raises funds in the United States. Revell, now a private security consultant, says Hamas, using numerous front organizations, have been highly successful in raising funds in the United States and that some of money reaches the organization's military wing.

New York primary and the virtual certainty that he will be the Republican Presidential candidate in November. Dole won all 93 of New York State's delegates to the national convention and now has more than a third of the number needed to assure him the nomination. Last night, he was campaigning in Florida, which along with Texas and other states, will hold "Super Tuesday" primaries next week.

SUSAN SPEAKS WITH ESTHER RANDOLPH, WHO WAS IN THE AUDIENCE 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL DELIVERED HIS FAMOUS "IRON CURTAIN" SPEECH AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IN FULTON, MISSOURI.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a pirate radio station in Berkeley, California that has provoked the ire of government regulators who want to shut down the low-power station for operating without a license. But, pirate radio operators say their voice is crucial to the democratic process and promise to continue broadcasting despite government efforts to close them down.