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which included a round of golf with Greg Norman.

Jackie talks to Zia Jaffrey about her new book The Invisibles, A Tale of the Eunuchs of India. The history of the Eunuchs or `hijras' as they are called in India, has never been documented. Jaffrey gives readers a glimpse into the culture of these castrated, cross-dressing men. She says even though she spent many months in India interviewing them and collecting information on this closed group of people, Jaffrey says much about the Hijras remains as mystery.

Noah talks with Wang Xizhe, an exiled Chinese dissident. Wang has been a leading activist in the democracy movement in China for the last twenty years, and he talks about why he believes that the current repression of dissidents in China is really an expression of the desperation of a shaky regime.

to eradicate its population of rats.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that King Hussein of Jordan and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat toured the West Bank today in a show of solidarity. The king's visit to the West Bank was his first since Israel captured the territory during the Six-Day War twenty-nine years ago.

under an old problem -- corruption. Surprisingly it's not of the political variety, but bureaucratic.

From the Zairean capital, Kinshasha, NPR's Jennifer Ludden eports on the success of Tutsi rebels in eastern Zaire, who are continuing to ake military gains. Last month, the rebels attacked Rwandan Hutu militia holed p in sprawling refugee camps, forcing more than half a million Hutu to return ome to Rwanda. Now, they say the want to topple the government of Zairean resident Mobutu Sese Seko (moh-BOO-too SAY-see SAY-koh).

In another of our audi postcards, NPR's Mike Shuster visits the legendary Uzbek city of Samarkand and tells the story of Ulug Beg, an enlightened 14th century leader and one of the world's first astronomers.

of female prisoners by male guards in many state prisons. The Human Rights Watch investigation conducted a two-year study of 11 women's prisons in California, Georgia, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and the District of Columbia.

General Motors reports that its profits for the third quarter of 1996 are double what they were for the same quarter last year. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that despite the good financial news, more than ten thousand auto workers have been laid off from GM plants in the US and in Mexico due to the Canadian Auto Workers' strike against GM.