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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.

The number of dead is rising on both sides of the ussian-Chechan conflict in and around the city of Grozny (GRAHZ-nee). NPR's rooke Gladstone reports on an anti-war group composed of hundreds of mothers f Russian soldiers who are heading into the war zone to bring their children ome.

Shirley Jahad reports on a Chicago ordinance that bans the sale of spray paint and thick markers. The measure was passed in an effort to reduce the city's graffitti problem. The paint industry has been challenging the law, which a Supreme Court justice this month refused to overturn.

NPR's Wendy Kaufman examines the issue of crime in a city that barely gave it any thought until a few years ago. Now with crime on the increase, citizens in Washington State want to know what their leaders in the other Washington are going to do to make them safer.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers in itez, where British troops of the United Nations peacekeeper rapid reaction orce are preparing to move into the hills above Sarajevo. The UN troops hope to tem the seige by Serb rebels of the Bosnian capital city.

The Ben Ezra Synagogue is Cairo's oldest Jewish temple. PR's Sunni Khalid (SOO-nee KAH-lid) reports on the recent renovation of the ncient structure, which used to be at the center of what once was a thriving ewish community in the city.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that snow storms have made or broken many a politicians career. She will assess how different cities' and states' key politicians are coping with the response to the Blizzard of 1996, and what lessons have been learned by past politician's failures.

In New York City, dozens of pyschiatrists are volunteering to find and help homeless people suffering from mental illness. Reporter Richard Schiffman reports that they they are seeking out these non-traditional patients in some very non-traditional ways.

New York Times Sports and City columnist Robert Lipsyte comments on plans for inter-league professional baseball. He says the prospect of teams from the American and National leagues playing one another regularly will rekindle fans' waning love affair with the game.

Zapatista Indian rebels have agreed to sign their first peace accord with the Mexican Government. It's one of six agreements that need to be negotiated to end the Zapatista rebellion, which began two years ago in the state of Chiapas. David Welna reports from Mexico City on the terms of the accord and why this breakthrough is happening now.