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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on the new optimism of Bob Dole's campaign.

- NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the very slow pace in which the Dayton Peace accord is being implemented in Bosnia. Even simple decisions such as where newly elected officials will meet...can take days of negotiations involving high level diplomats.

who's been covering the fighting in northern Iraq files an essay on "accuracy versus adequacy" in reporting on that region.

with Baltimore cardiologist Dr. Michael Benitez and Jeff Jerome of the Poe House and Museum about the new theory that Edgar Allan Poe died of rabies not alcohol.

. After a prolific start the Republican controlled- Congress stagnated a bit in this election year. But following Bob Dole's resignation from his position as Senate Majority Leader, Congress finished with several bi-partisan compromises, passing some sweeping new laws.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez asks: when is a child's kiss an innocent show of affection..and when is it sexual harassment? Judging from two incidents this week, some public school officials are having a hard time telling the difference. One involved a six-year-old, the other a seven-year-old...both were suspended for kissing a classmate. The kisses illustrate the difficulty schools have with defining -- and dealing with -- the topic of harassment.

Noah talks with Michael Donner, who has compiled oodles of palindromes into a new book: I Love Me, Vol. I -- S. Woodrow's Palindrome Encyclopedia. Probably the most famous palindrome, which is a word phrase which reads the same forwards or backwards, is "Able I was ere I saw Elba."

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the Clinton Administration is sending Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the Mideast this weekend to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the eve of new peace negotiations at Erez on the Gaza border. Christopher's Mideast visit, only days after the two-day Israeli-Palestinian summit at the White House, underscores the importance the US is placing on reviving the Middle East peace process.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports on today's court hearing during which a judge ordered Major League umpires back to work. The umpires had threatened a protest strike over the delayed punishment meted out to Orioles player Roberto Alomar, who spit in the face of an umpire when he got into a heated argument over a call.

who last week was convicted in a terrorist conspiracy to blow up US airliners. Authorities also believe that Yousef was the man responsible for the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. He's set to stand trial for that bombing sometime next year.