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Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Julie McCarthy about the atest disaster relief efforts in Kobe, Japan. Following last week's atastrophic earthquake, landslides and an influenza epidemic are the latest azards to befall the port city. The death toll from the quake has now topped 9-hundred.

Mary Jo Draper (DRAY-per) of member station CUR in Kansas City reports on the recommendaton of the Midwest Bioethics Center oncerning the extent to which children should be involved in decisions nvolving their medical treatment.

THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN OKLAHOMA CITY IS WHERE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE MISSING IN THE BOMBING WAIT TO BE NOTIFIED. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH DR. DAN NELSON, CHILD PSYCHIATRIST AND COORDINATOR FOR ALL THE ACTIVITY AT THE SIT.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on a proposal in New York City to create separate schools for children who've been caught bringing weapons to class. The schools would be modelled after the Wildcat Academy, an alternative school in New York for troubled students.

Jacki goes behind the scenes at the New York City Fashion show and speaks with designers, fashion editors and models about the clothing industry. Fashion is a 14-billion dollar business in New York...although sales have been down in the last few years.

ALTHOUGH IN 1969 CHATANOOGA, TENNESSEE, WAS CONSIDERED THE DIRTIEST CITY IN AMERICA, NOW IN 1995 IT CAN BOAST OF BEING ONE OF THE CLEANEST. SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH WAYNE CROP, AN ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER AND FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE CHATTANOOGA AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BUREAU, ABOUT THIS TRANSFORMATION.

OKLAHOMA: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S WADE GOODWYN ABOUT THE MOOD IN PERRY, OKLAHOMA, WHERE TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH, ONE OF THE MEN ACCUSED OF BOMBING THE FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING IN OKLAHOMA CITY, WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DAVID McKITRICK, A CORRESPONDENT FOR THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER, WHO IS BASED IN BELFAST, ABOUT THE END OF THE BRITISH ARMY'S ROUTINE PATROLS OF THE CITY, A MOVE WHICH IS HOPED TO HELP THE PEACE PROCESS ALONG.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on the appointment last night of Daniel Domenech as chancellor of New York City schools. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani disapproves of the new chancellor; last night a candidate supported by the mayor withdrew from consideration amid allegations of conflict of interest.

From Kansas City, NPR's Laura Ziegler reports on a prison program that encourages regular people to contact and visit inmates at a federal penitentiary. The idea is to provide inmates with human contact and a positive example of how to live outside of prison.