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This time of year, the population of High Point, North Carolina doubles, as more than 70-thousand furniture industry executives descend on the city from all over the world. Adam Hochberg explored the seventy square acres of furniture in High Point this week and filed this report.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr discusses the prospects for the Middle East peace process with Richard Haass, formerly with the National Security Council, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and with Samuel Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel, currently at the Institute for Near East Policy.

Scott speaks with Professor Brian Gardiner, a paleontolgist at King's College, London. Prof. Gardiner says he knows who perpetrated the hoax of 1912, the Piltdown Man, thought to have been the "Missing Link."

While using chemicals to get rid of bugs is a multi-million dollar business, Neary visits with a scientist who studies insect-produced chemicals that could be useful to us.

One hundred years ago this week, supposedly, the first U.S. auto accident took place. Scott speaks with automotive engineer Richard Scharchburg (Schartzburg) about other early collisions. (5:15) Scharchburg is the author of "Carriages Without Horses" published by: Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc. 400 Commonwealth Drive. Warrendale, PA. 15096 (412) 776

The Hardanger (HAR dan gher ) fiddle is a Norweigan fiddle, and unlike the regular violin, has additional strings that vibrate. It is this sympathetic vibration that gives the instrument its full and rich sound. Tonight Robert talks with Loretta Kelley, an American hardanger fiddle player about her teacher Knut Buen (kah NUTE BOO in). The Norweigan fiddler has a new cd out and Linda talks about Knut and his style of playing.(8:00) THE CD IS CALLED AS QUICK AS FIRE BY KNUT BUEN ON HENRY STREET RECORDS 800-443-4727 On the internet: http://harp.rounder.com:70/0h/rounder/catalog/bylabel/hstr/0002/0002.html FUNDER 0:29 CUTAWAY 0:59 =========================SECOND HOUR======================= BILLBOARD :59 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2A 9. WH INTERVENTION - President Clinton is using his executive powers to help boost beef prices and ease the rise of gas prices. NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the President's decision to stabilize beef prices by buying more beef and opening conservation acreage for grazing. This decision comes in the wake of his announcement yesterday to sell oil reserves to increase market supplies.. this to combat price hikes in gasoline.

A new study indicates that kids who get special emphasis on music and arts classes also do well in other areas, such as math and reading. In the study, elementary school students who were given more music and arts classes that encouraged active participation tended to score better on subsequent math and reading tests. Michelle Trudeau reports.

has struck down an Illinois law that placed a limit on the amount of money a jury could award in damages for 'pain and suffering.' Judge Kenneth Gillis ruled that the state legislature had usurped the power of the courts by arbitrarily setting the 500,000 dollar limit.

Commentator Marianne Jennings speaks of the low self-esteem brought on by coupon braggarts...those people who actually clip, save and use zillions of coupons and then brag about getting their groceries for free. She can't understand the math and how companies can afford coupons...but most of all she can't understand how they remember to bring the coupons to the store.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu tells the story into an old Russian man in a photo shop. The manager of the shop gave a few bits of information about the man which led Codrescu to fanatize about the contents of his room.