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NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that the Library of Congress' employee union is challenging the library's practice of ordering psychiatric exams for certain workers. The union says the library uses the practice to get rid of employees who had disputes with their supervisors. Library officials say they have used the tests to help workers and protect the institution.

Howard Berkes introduces us to a sound engineer whose passion is national forests and their endangered sounds.

Frank Browning reports on the debate among health professionals at San Francisco General Hospital over how that institution should respond to the competition from HMOs. Public hospitals used to be able to devote a lot of time and public money to taking care of the poor. But with for-profit HMOs now offering to care for the poor at a lower cost, public hospitals are being forced to reorganize.

Noah talks with Miami Herald columnist Liz Balmaseda about Brothers to the Rescue, the Cuban exile organization whose airplanes were shot down by Cuban warplanes last Saturday, sparking an international incident. Havana, justifying the dowing of the planes over Cuban territorial waters, charges Brothers to the Rescue is a terrorist organization. Balmaseda disagrees.

These women average a $250,00 in salaries each year. They were asked how they made it and what difficulties they face.

plans to send a flotilla of boats and aircraft to the area near Cuba, where Cuban MiGs shot down two small planes last Saturday. They say they will drop flowers into the water as a memorial to the four pilots who presumably died in the incident.

Linda Gradstein reports the terrorist bombings that have shaken Israelis this week are now reshaping the election campaign. The opposition Likud Party is gaining ground, since the public believes it would get tougher on the Palestinians.

The senator from Arizona has been leading bipartisan talks on infrastructure. Asked about criticism from fellow Democrats she's compromising too much, Sinema said she's focused on getting things done.

big trade in the National Hockey League. Wayne Gretzky, the league's all-time leading scorer, was traded by the Los Angeles Kings to the St. Louis Blues. Gretzky had hoped to be traded to a Stanley Cup contender.

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