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Commentator Elissa Ely tells the story of a psychiatric patient whom she was asked to assess, in order to see if he was competent to make decisions. His loving children thought he was not; his social worker thought he was. This man spoke only one word-- but with the help of his social worker, Ely learned volumes about the man's capacity to make his own decisions.

Commentator Reynolds Price remarks on his obsession with time and his constant fear that he will be late and hold someone up. He traces this back to his childhood. He adored his travelling salesman father, but when he would drive around with him, his father often would leave him waiting in the car for endless stratches of time.

measuring compliance with a Presidential order to declassify and make public documents that are more than 25 years old...

under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

Jeff Barry of member station KCLU in Thousand Oaks, California, reports on the giant wildfire in Big Sur. While the fire is mostly contained, authorities say they expect it to consume at least twenty thousand acres before it's completely extinguished.

in Taba, Egypt between Israeli and the Palestinian negotiators about the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Hebron... and the first visit to the West Bank by Jordan's King Hussain since the 1967 War.

of an upcoming meeting between Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tomorrow in Cairo.

Critic Bob Mondello sings the praises of Woody Allen's first musical "Everyone Says I Love You." It's a throwback to musicals of the 1930's.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is located in Los Angeles. It is the creation of a visionary named David Wilson---who for the past decade has been displaying exhibits that stretch the boundaries of imagination and reality--the horn of a woman from the year 1688, a bat which can supposedly pass clean through solid objects, microminiature sculptures...including Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs on the shaft of a needle. Each exhibit is documented---and Wilson appears to believe that all of it is absolutely genuine and the stories surrounding them are true. Our guide through the museum is New Yorker Magazine writer Lawrence Weschler (WESH-lurr)---who chronicled this museum in his book Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders ---his audio portrait is produced by David Isay.

talks to Ken Oliver, horse racing writer for the Guardian newspaper about a horse race fourteen years ago...but whose winner was officially decided this week. It was determined the winning horse was actually a fraud.