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New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has announced plans to send 1000 poorly-performing students from the city's public school system to local Catholic schools. We visit Bishop Loughlin (LOCK-lin) High School in Brooklyn to talk with students and educators about the differences between the public and parochial school settings. As NPR's Barbara Mantel reports, teachers feel that Catholic schools like Loughlin bring a sense of a mission to the job of teaching -- giving students a greater feeling of belonging than they receive in public schools.

Commentator Kristine Holmgren says as a young girl she was taught to remember the poor -- to be generous and share. Now she says there is little respect for the poor...they are seen as evil and the demonization of the poor is breeding cynicism about poverty. She worries that the plight of the poor in general no longer moves us. Rather, we are only moved by an interruption in our own material success.

if the government were to change the way it calculates inflation, as recommended by a Congressional commission. To protect taxpayers from inflation, the tax code is pegged to the Consumer Price Index. Reducing the CPI by one-point-one percent a year, as the commission recommends, would effectively raise most people's taxes.

under the austere Islamic rule of the Taliban . There's no music, no soccer, no chess, no women to talk to. But there is no crime either and, among the thugs, there is still poetry.

While many efforts to use the Internet for commerce have proved disappointing, there are a few web-based businesses that appear to have the right formula. One such company is Tunes.com...the company runs a web site that allows you to listen to a little bit of every track from a cd. Tunes.com already has more than 200,000 music tracks available. NPR's John McChesney reports on how the company has managed to combine novelty and profitability.

the U.S. owes the United Nations in back dues and how that is affecting both the U.N.'s ability to carry out its obligations and the U.S. position in the U.N. President Clinton requested the money in his new budget, but Congress is unlikely to approve it, until the U.N. promises to make reforms.

President Clinton's 1.69 trillion dollar budget proposal for the next fiscal year. When the plan arrived at the Capitol yesterday, Republicans and Democrats alike expressed guarded optimism that a budget compromise can be reached: something that hasn't happened in years.

The Mendi Bible was stolen this week from the library of former President John Quincy Adams. It was an important piece of history in the anti-slavery movement. Scott speaks with historian Paul Nagle.

Wade Goodwyn reports on the discovery of the ship once belonging to explorer Rene Robert Cavalier, Suer de la Salle.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the ontinuation of talks over the future of the Palestinian West Bank town of ebron. Israeli troops have yet to pull out of the town as promised, and each ide is blaming the other for the impasse in the negotiations.