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where computer industry executives are up in arms over a proposition that would allow shareholders to sue companies if their share price fluctuates wildly. Voters will have the chance to vote on the proposition in November.

On election day, voters in many states will be asked to check several boxes on their ballots for state judges. Most people won't know much if anything about the candidates. And that's a problem, as NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports. Critics of the practice of electing judges say justice and politics are a dangerous mix. But the candidates say raising money and pleasing voters doesn't affect their objectivity.

Robert talks to poet and translator Stephen Mitchell, who has just issued a new translation of the book of Genesis. Mitchell is fascinated by the mystery and strangeness of many of the stories in the book... the talking serpent in the Garden of Eden, the fact that Jacob wrestles and defeats God... and thinks that other translators and scholars often gloss over them. Mitchell has not divided his book into its traditional chapters, but has instead identified each story as being the work of a specific writer.

Weekend Edition entertainment critic Elvis Mitchell tells Susan about the new movie "Sleepers."

NPR's Vicky Que reports on the rise of drug use, particularly marijuana, among teenagers and how researchers are still deciding on the best method for curtailing it. One problem may be that baby boomer parents haven't been as concerned about marijuana use by teenagers as experts think they should be. Marijuana is also much cheaper and more readily available today, which makes it difficult for law enforcement to control.

SEX & POLITICS: NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr shares his houghts on the latest sex scandal to fell a political operative. Dick Morris, he man who engineered President Clinton's political comeback, resigned after a rostitute with whom he was involved alleged he shared inside information with er.

NPR's Mandelit Del Barco reports on the growing nfluence of associations formed by Salvadoran immigrants in Los Angeles. The ity is home to an estimated 500-thousand immigrants who have formed these roups in an effort to help rebuild El Salvador's war-torn economy.

to Washington that comes just days after he met with Palestinian leader Arafat. >

With the Iraqi-supported Kurdish Democratic Party militias of Mahmoud Barzani routing his Iran-backed rivals of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, NPR's Michael Shuster talks with Robert about the view of the conflict from Baghdad. The bottom line is that acting through its Kurdish surrogates, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears to have regained control of his northern Kurdish provinces after five years of having been prevented from doing so by the United States and its UN allies.

Robert & Linda note the use of the phrase "as we know it" as an appendage to words such as "welfare", "the IRS". It can be traced back to the late 19th century, but has won a place in political parlance only lately.