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Commentator David Brooks discusses the difference between President Clinton's and Bob Dole's views on school choice. Brooks says that Catholic schools have proven to be especially effective at educating at-risk inner city students, and the needs of these kids should outweigh the concerns of the National Education Association.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Diyarbikir (dee-YARR-buh-keer) in Southeastern Turkey that there are new reports of heavy fighting between rival Kurdish militias in northern Iraq, as Turkey declares the establishment of a buffer zone along its borders with Iraq to prevent attacks from yet another Kurdish rebel group.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says although presidential candidates like to make lofty promises--cutting taxes, creating a new health care system---most of what they say they will do as President is really done by the Congress.

In the final segment of the series, NPR's Howard Berkes reports on one of the most unusual and hazardous professions--diving for sea cucumbers. An exotic delicacy in Asia, sea cucumbers cling to the bottom of Puget Sound, where divers brave frigid waters, strong currents and gradual bone necrosis to bring them up. No one knows much about these creatures, and measures to protect them have limited the fishery to a few determined divers.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that there was renewed fighting between Palestinians and Israelis today after Israeli troops stormed the Muslims' holy Temple Mount during Friday prayers, in an incident that left three Palestinians dead and dozens of others wounded. Despite this outbreak of violence, there were signs that both the Palestinians and the Israelis were seeking to avoid the sort of bloody confrontations that had raged for the last two days. Both sides seemed to be trying to step back from the brink of outright war, and to get back to peaceful negotiations about their differences.

One might imagine that being a wedding photographer is a fairly pleasant job, where one is surrounded by happy people. Commentator John Rosenthal discovered, though, that is not always the case. He describes a wedding where the groom's buddies put a ball and chain around his ankle. The groom thinks this is hilarious, until the bride demands he take it off or she will call off the wedding.

mentally incompetent to stand trial for murder. Du Pont, an heir to his family's chemical fortune, is charged with killing a former Olympic gold medal wrestler. He has been transferred to a state psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment.

Linda talks to former Astronaut Norm Thagard about the experience of returning to Earth after an extended stay in orbit. Thagard stayed aboard the Mir Space Station last year for over a hundred days. On the eve of Astronaut Shannon Lucid's even longer stay, he comments of bone mass loss, exercise in space and its effects. He says it felt okay to walk, but running was tough for three months.

- Cory visits with the bell ringers at Washington's National Cathedral for a lesson in how the original heavy metal music is played.

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