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NPR'S MARA LAISSON REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL GROUP OF SEVEN SUMMIT NOW BEING HELD IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

A FUNGUS, SIMILAR TO THAT WHICH CAUSED THE POTATO BLIGHT IN IRELAND ALMOST 150 YEARS AGO IS THREATENING THIS COUNTRY'S POTATO INDUSTRY. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MURRY MAHANY, A FARMER IN ARKPORT, NEW YORK, WHERE POTATO FARMING IS A 50-MILLION-DOLLAR-A-YEAR INDUSTRY.

This past week a round of hearings were held by House nd Senate committees on the future of the United States Department of Commerce. oung Republicans have made the case that the government should not be involved n the regulation of free trade, but NPR's Chitra Ragavan (Chih-trah ah-gah-vahn) reports that the difficulties surrounding the elimination of this epartment and its functions could prove more complicated than the Republicans ntially expected.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that 25 years ago, cigarette advertising on television was banned. He looks back at the ban and the impact it had on the nation's smoking habit.

Ever since the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the extraordinary collection of exhibits. But museum organizers noticed that missing among the visitors were D.C. public school kids. And so they developed a program that would bring local young people to the museum where they could not only learn about the holocaust but eventually get a job at the museum. Daniel visits with some of these high school students during one of their 10 week courses and discovers how the program has not only changed the way these teenagers view history, but how it has affected their parents as well.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 8:20 (This week's on-air player lives in Iowa ity, Iowa and listens to

When storyteller Carmen Deedee left Cuba as a little girl many years ago, she had a difficult time adjusting to her new life in a small town in Georgia. But her transition was made easier when she discovered that some of the things she treasured in her country she could also find in her new one.

NPR'S JOANNE SILBERNER REPORTS ON A PHP, PHYSICIANS' HEALTH PLAN, SET UP BY 300 PHYSICIANS IN GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO MEET BOTH ECONOMIC AND PATIENTS' DEMANDS.... AND THE NEEDS OF TODAY'S HEALTH CARE.

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel was among the people attending Rabin's funeral last Monday. He wrote us his reflections on the event and on the tragedy behind it.

35 years ago - the then 6 year old Ruby Bridges went to her first day of public school - only to be met by a mob of whites who didn't want a little black girl coming to their school. But, despite rigorous protests, Louisiana schools were under court order to integrate and so Ruby Bridges, escorted by federal marshalls, continued first grade at the Frantz School in New Orleans all by herself. The only other person Ruby saw througout most of her first year was her teacher - Barbara Henry. Daniel talks with Ruby Bridges-Hall and Barbara Henry about their recollections of those historic, precedent setting times.