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Robert talks with Clifford Krauss, the police department bureau chief for the New York Times. Krauss discusses how fingerprint technology and a citywide crackdown on petty crime led to the arrest of three suspected killers in the New York metropolitan area.

A federal judge in Montana today ordered Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski to be remanded to Sacramento to face charges that he killed two people and injured two others with bombs. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the risks prosecutors may face if they attempt to seek the death penalty in what will be one of the most carefully watched cases of the decade.

Robert and Noah talk about President Clinton's speech before about five thousand labor activists today in Chicago, and Bob Dole's efforts to patch up differences in the Republican party about how to deal with the issue of abortion. (1:30) (TAPE &

Commentator Susan Aaronson (AIR-un-sun) says that too often, reporters use inflammatory language or dramatic metaphors to explain economic situations...phrases such as "trade war," in describing our relationship with China, are misleading and inaccurate.

Commentator Michael Hood recalls his childhood in the Fifties, when fathers ruled the roost and children knew their parts. Chicken parts were divvied up according to the family food chain, with giblets being the prize: Food of the Dads.

which is expected to touch on some sensitive issues such as married priests and birth control.

to increase minority representation on jury panels. The efforts face a variety of hurdles including the revelation by a recent study suggesting that African-Americans are less likely to respond to the questionnaires that lead to jury duty.

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green (fred-REE-kah MATH-yooz GREEN) works at home, but she misses the office -- the daily flow of human interaction among colleagues. So she has joined an on-line group where they regularly enjoy jokes, recipes, memories, and dreams: the skin contact of cyberspace. It isn't like sharing stories with a buddy over the coffeemaker, she says, But it's not like sitting in rush hour traffic, either.

Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new film "Courage Under Fire," starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, about the first woman to die in combat as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.

- NPR's John Burnett spends a morning with a man who has written a book about Hummingbirds.