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This past week, the Defense Base Closure and Realignment ommission released its updated list of recommended military shut-downs. Part of he Air Force base in Grand Forks, North Dakota was included in that lineup. eekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Jacobs, editor of the rand Forks Herald newspaper, about the potential effects of the closing, ncluding the expected number of military jobs lost, as well as the everberations throughout the rest of the Grand Forks community. They also iscuss local coverage of the Waco hearings in Washington D.C. and the growing roblems with Devil's Lake.

The country of China is going through a period of ransition. Where socialism was once a way of life, capitalism and ntreprenuership now are on the rise. NPR's Ted Clark reports on how the conomic and political changes are fostering deep-rooted sociological ransformations within modern Chinese culture.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Paul Lukas, Editor and Publisher of EER FRAME: THE JOURNAL OF INCONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION. They talk about the most ecent issue of the journal, which includes commentary on musk-flavored Life avers, the Reese's "NutRageous" candy bar, and "Pilots" beer. There are no subscriptions to BEER FRAME - to get the issue #4 or the next ssue, send $2.00, cash, check or money order, payable to Paul Lukas to BEER RAME, 160 St. John's Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Issues of BEER FRAME are also vailable at Tower Books.)

Daniel talks with Journalist Lee May and his father about their re-uniting after 39 years apart. Lee May who now lives in Atlanta, sought to find his father in 1989, his father lives in Meridian Mississippi. Lee May has written a book about the biggest thing they have in common....Gardening.

Producer Dan Collison prepared this profile of a woman named Barbara, who is an illegal Polish immigrant living in Chicago. She's been there for three years and still finds herself caught -- legally, financially and emotionally --- between two worlds, and facing an uncertain future.

ESSAY: 18-YEAR-OLD JOHN FEDOTA OF EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ONE OF THE WINNERS OF NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "COMING OF AGE" CONTEST, READS US HIS ESSAY TITLED "HOW LITTLE WE SEE."

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: NORA RAUM & SHAY STEVENS

Host Liane Hansen visits the Edmund Burke School in Washington .C. to sit in on a discussion between Russell Banks, author of the new novel, ULE OF THE BONE (HarperCollins), and a group of 16 and 17 year-old American iterature students. Banks wants to find out from these students if he has ccurately portrayed the world of the book's main character, a 14-year old unaway.

NPR'S PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT MARTHA RADDATZ PROFILES GENERAL GORDON SULLIVAN, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY, WHO RETIRED THIS WEEK AFTER 36 YEARS SERVICE.