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on the damage that flooding has done to parts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Some residents say overdevelopment has contributed to the problem.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on the Senate's vote to reconfirm Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, amid criticism by some Senate Democrats that Greenspan has waged a stingy monetary policy that they say has held back economic growth.

s decision-making style, and how he's likely to apply it to some major decisions between now and the Republican convention in August.

Schorr/ Simon: Scott and NPR's Dan Schorr review the week's news.

Scott talks to Joe Nocera, contributing writer for Fortune Magazine, about two money investment ideas whose origins can be traced to New England: Ponzi schemes and mutual funds.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has a story about a bear named No Neck, who walked across the Florida Panhandle and three states until he got to Baton Rouge. Why Baton Rouge? Only No Neck knows.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports from the White House on President Clinton's first meeting with the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Though Clinton favored the election of Netanyahu's more moderate opponent in last May's election, both he and the new Prime Minister sought to patch up their differences and reaffirm traditional US-Israeli solidarity.

PARROT-HEADS: Commentator Steven Stark ponders the enduring appeal of ock singer Jimmy Buffett.

NPR's Dan Charles explains how the kind of jet engine that exploded on a Delta flight over the weekend works, and how such incidents can occur.

of Yeltsin and his main Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.