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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that settlers in Hebron are touting their version of history in tours designed especially for tourists to the region. The settlers are trying to convince tourists that Jews have a unique right to control the holy places of Hebron and to prevent Israel from redeploying Israeli troops from the city.

NPR's Margot Adler reports that baseball fields fields in New York city are in as much demand and as hotly fought over as rent controlled apartments. The Parks Deptartment is trying to break up cartels...in which people are actually making lots of money by trying to control just who gets to play on the fields.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Dan Bannister, president and CEO of Dyncorp in Reston, Va., about business opportunities in the Balkans. Bannister was supposed to be on the plane that crashed near the Croatian city of Dubrovnick yesterday. Bannister says the Balkans are very attractive for investers because of the tremendous amount of rebuilding that will take place in the next 5 years.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on and lawsuit filed by landowners and developers who were prevented from building a Wal-Mart store in Hyde Park, New York. Such lawsuits, commonly called SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) suits, are becoming increasing popular with developers...who go after city officials and town activists who block their plans.

a professor at the University of Florida about a town that has banned baseball since 1908. For 88 years, it's been illegal to play "The National Pastime" in Webster, Florida. This week, the city council is expected to repeal the ban. McCarthy is the author of >Baseball in Florida.

Detroit, Michigan is the pulse-point of America's automobile industry...but it's been battling every major urban ill for the past three decades. Poverty and poor schools are still a reality in Detroit...but there are surprising signs of a new lease on life for the city. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

of work done by the FBI bomb laboratory. The chemist, Frederick Whitehurst, is expected to be a star defense witness in the Oklahoma city bombing trial.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the continuing delay in signing the accord for an Israeli pullout from Hebron. Questions are being raised in Israel about the policies that allowed a man of proven instability into the Israeli army. Yesterday, an off-duty member of the Israeli army fired his army-issued rifle at Palestinians in the city marketplace, in hopes of sidetracking the peace process.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that after having been destroyed by 17 years of civil war, the Lebanese capital of Beirut is rising from its ashes in a $2 billion dollar project that hopes to restore the ancient city to its pre-civil war glory. Not everyone, however, is happy about how the project is being conducted and whose interest it is serving.

Linda talks with Jo Mannies, a political writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, about the controversy in St. Louis concerning the disqualification of a candidate for the mayoralty of the city. A 28-year-old lawyer, Donnell Smith, has sued for the right to be on the ballot for the mayor's race, even though election rules state that a candidate must be 30 to run.