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NPR's Ina Jaffe has the final segment in a report on how brain injured people try to compensate for the memory loss and other cognitive disabilities they've suffered. While medical advances have saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of brain injured people, these survivors have few places to turn, and little money to pay, for this kind of difficult rehabilitaion.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports that tensions between Taiwan and mainland China are escalating to the point where China is on the verge of conducting war games in the Taiwan Strait. The threat comes only weeks before Taiwan's presidential election, and is seen an attempt to intimidate Taiwanese voters.

SCOTT INTERVIEWS CELLIST JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER, BROTHER OF BROADWAY COMPOSER ANDREW. MR. LLOYD WEBBER HAS COME OUT WITH A CD OF CHILDREN'S LULLABIES. THE CD INCLUDES THE FIRST SONG HE'S EVER WRITTEN AND IT WAS INSPIRED BY THE BIRTH OF HIS SON. 10:00 (Lullaby: Sweet Dreams for Children of All Ages. On Philips Classics by Julian Lloyd W

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NPR's Linda Gradstein has this report from Jerusalem about Israel's Orthodox Jews who take it upon themselves to collect the bodies of those who've lost their lives from terrorist acts in order to give them a proper burial as defined by jewish law.

Commentator Katherine Kersten says that while corporations and even school districts are stressing diversity training, this emphasis on people's differences only separates people further. She argues it emphasizes steryotypes and encourages people to see each other as members of "groups" rather than as individuals.

Commentator Andrea Bernstein (BERN-stine) has spent some time on the road, covering the campaign of Pat Buchanan. As an out lesbian, she was scared at the prospect of encountering the people who work for the candidate. She was surprised by whom she met.

Essayist Diane Roberts goes bird-watching, and discovers nature's ot that bad after all.

We hear excerpts of stump speeches from Republican candidates Steve Forbes, Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan as they campaign on the eve of Tuesday's primaries.

The city's debt has reached 400-million-dollars. City buildings are running out of toilet paper, schools are without books, and when some police officers respond to emergency calls, they have to walk. Adding to the District's troubles, Congress has rejected the 1996 budget for a third time.