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Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on New York city's experiment with 'workfare' - making welfare recipients work for their benefits. While perhaps a good idea for some, for others it forces them to choose between working at a dead-end minimum wage job or going to school to improve skills and employability.

across the country are on high alert...they are guarding against any possible attacks April 19 -- the anniversary of the Federal raid in Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing.

In the last few weeks, thousands of Albanian refugees have been streaming into Italy through the port city of Brindisi. Robert talks with Orla Guerin, the Southern Europe correspondent for the BBC, about the Italian government's plans to send many of them back to Albania.

Since the Oklahoma City bombing, the American public has become more informed about right-wing miltia groups. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that over the past year many militia members have shifted their efforts towards challenging local government's right to enact laws.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on an investigation by New York City and by the state that shows how the case of abused-to-death 6 year old Elisa was bungled...and how other cases have also slipped through the social welfare cracks.

Heavy rains have caused flooding in three Midwestern states. Hundreds of residents who live along the Mississippi have been evacuated from their homes. Robert Siegel talks with East St. Louis mayor Gordon Bush about floods which have inundated his city.

This time of year, the population of High Point, North Carolina doubles, as more than 70-thousand furniture industry executives descend on the city from all over the world. Adam Hochberg explored the seventy square acres of furniture in High Point this week and filed this report.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London that restaurants in the city have become recognized as some of the best places to eat in the world. The boom in world-class restaurants is led by a new group of chefs providing eclectic menus for world-wide tastes.

to spread their demonstrations to cities other than Belgrade in an effort to further pressure President Milosevic....

- The Museum of the City of New York has organizied an exhibit displaying the toys children played with 100 years ago. Jacki talks with collection curator Sheila Clark, who describes the toys of yesteryear and imagines what might have been on a 19th century Christmas wish list.