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- Nearly 125 years after the Great Fire of Chicago, the city's fire department still depends on an antiquated teletype machine to dispatch its fire trucks. NPR's Edward Lifson reports on the machine's imminent demise.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on budget cuts and their effect on City University of New York, once commonly called the poor man's Harvard. Big cuts and rising tuition have made it more difficult for the mostly working-class student body.

to reach a settlement on Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank city of Hebron.

Ray talks with W. B. Harpool about the liklihood that someone could obtain the right elements for a bombing similar to the one in Oklahoma City. Harpool is the owner of Harpool Fertilizer Co., in Denver, TX.

found that northeast rustbelt cities are the most segregated in the nation.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports on the aftermath of the Olympics for Atlanta neighborhoods. The games did not plunge the city into debt, and development has been spurred in some neighborhoods, but many did not experience the kind of urban rejuvenation they expected to.

Robert talks with Martin Lee, the chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, and a member of Hong Kong's legislative council. They discuss the transition of Hong Kong from the status of British colony to Chinese city, as the date for this transfer of control approaches.

a merit scholarship program in New York City that prepares minority students from public schools for the rigors of a private school education.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on rising tensions caused by the jockeying for power while President Boris Yeltsin is ill. Today, the interior minister accused the security chief of plotting a coup, and said security in major cities would be increased.

Plans to build a new museum in Berlin were postponed. The museum would have stood as a monument to the horrors of Germany's recent past. City officials say such a museum would cost too much. But, as NPR's Ed Lifson reports, Berlin's Jewish community is not convinced.