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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jack Calhoun cal-HOON), the Executive Director of the National Crime Prevention Council in ashington, D.C., and Buffalo City Court Judge Eugene Fahey (fay-hee) about the ffectivness of youth curfews. Mr. Calhoun says the curfews will only be uccessful if they constitute one part of a community-wide effort that includes arental involvement and recreational programs.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with education specialist Deborah eier (MY-ER). She helped found Harlem's Central Park East in New York's istrict four, where her ideas spread to other schools and turned around an area nce notorious for the worst academic scores in the city. Meier has written bout her experiences in a new book, "The Power of Their Ideas" (Beacon ress)

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Bosnia on the peace process in Mostar and Sarajevo. In Mostar, the city once split between Croats and Muslims, the reunification of the central district has been marred by fist-fights between Croat and Muslim youths. In the Serb suburbs of Sarajevo the exodus of Bosnian Serbs continues. Leaders have ordered an evacuation from areas that are to be handed over to the Bosnian government.

Daniel Pinkwater is paging through National Geographic and comes across a picture of a remote Chinese village that has bagel s. And bagels that he says look pretty good. He mourns that fact that you can get good bagels in China, but not where he lives just a hundred miles north of New York City. He is stuck with the frozen erzatz kind.

Development to tear down low income high rise apartments in inner city Baltimore, and move tenants to the suburbs. The HUD proposal tentatively settles a class action lawsuit brought by public housing tenants.

The storm dumped many inches of rain on Philadelphia and New York City, causing flooding and at least 45 deaths.

Karen Michel reports on the Alice Neel retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Painter of New York's famous and not-so-famous, Neel's uncompromising adherence to figurative painting at the height of abstract expressionism left her outside the city's art scene for much of her life. The Whitney exhibit is the first major retrospective of Alice Neel's artwork since her death in 1984.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from the industrial city of Norilsk, Russia, on the so-called oligarchs, the men who own large companies in Russia. Norilsk Nickel, a massive empire, is an example of the kind of Soviet-era corporations that were sold off to private hands, often under shady circumstances. The new oligarchs are accused of taking advantage of post-Soviet instability, and of draining wealth out of Russia.

NPR's Martin Kaste (KAH-stee) talks with host Linda Wertheimer about President Clinton's visit to Colombia to endorse his latest plan to curb drug trafficking. Clinton was meeting Colombian President Pastrana in the coastal city of Cartagena in the wake of a one-point-three-billion dollar package of aid and military support for the Colombian army to help fight guerillas and the drug overlords who support them.

From Minnesota Public Radio Bob Kelleher reports that the lift-bridge that separates, Lake Superior from the Duluth harbour has gotten its voice back. The bridge's original...but very loud...horns were replaced by quieter pipes last year. But city residents felt their bridge had lost some of its character, and started a petition drive to bring the blaring horns back.