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Scott talks to the man who wrote 'Day-O,' Irving Burgie. Mr. Burgie wrote many Calypso hits for Harry Belafonte and other singers. He's just released a compact disc of his own renditions, called "Island in the Sun." (on Angel Records)

Scott's thoughts on the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.

Scott talks to Stanford history professor Estelle Freedman about her new biography, "Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition." Van Waters worked for the cause of socially disadvantaged women at the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women in Framingham from 1932 to 1957. (The University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Several of Mexico's most-acclaimed musicians are living in Texas and playing in Tex-Mex burrito joints and at rodeos. But they don't seem to mind...because they're making a LOT more money doing that than they would have if they'd stayed in Mexico. NPR's John Burnett reports.

NPR's Vicky Que examines the question of whether cigarettes are, in fact, a 'gateway' to illegal drug use. The Clinton administration says one of the reasons it wants to reduce smoking by young people is to reduce subsequent use of marijuana and other illegal drugs.

that contains personal information about most people in the country. Opponents call it an invasion of privacy. But the company says the criticism is based on rumors and false information.

Noah talks with Dale Hughes, the chief operating officer of V96SG and the chief designer and project manager of the 1996 Olympics velodrome. They discuss the portable track used for the Olympic bike racing competitions in Atlanta, which is the only one of its kind in the world. Atlanta doesn't want to keep it, so the portable velodrome is up for sale.

The campaign reform group Common Cause today asked for an independent counsel to investigate what it called "an illegal scheme" on the part of both the Republican and Democratic parties to circumvent campaign finance laws by buying television ads that presidential candidates Bob Dole and President Clinton should have paid for, because the ads weren't for party-building, but were meant to support the candidates. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

David Baron reports on the three U.S. scientists who won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of a form of helium that has shed unexpected light on the first moments of the universe...and a form of helium called Helium-3 has properties called superfludity at extremely low temperatures. the two Texans and the British chemist who won the prize in chemistry for discovery of a carbon molecule that sparked a new field of study.