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The rapid spread of gambling casinos throughout the United tates is threatening the survival of the horse racing industry. NPR's Don onyea reports on the various ways race track owners are trying to bring ustomers back to their venues.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews from Bosnia, including President Bill Clinton offering assitance to NATO orces; President of the UN Security Council Detlev Graf Zu Rantzau (DET'-lef RAHF zoo RANT'-zow); NATO Allied Forces spokesperson Janis Witt confirming eports that the downed American pilot is alive; and United Nations spokespeople lexander Evanco and Shashi Tharur.

This weekend, students from around the country came to the ation's capital to compete in the "Project Earth" Eco Fair. The national ompetition is sponsored to encourage 4th through 12th graders to think of ways o improve the environment. Host Liane Hansen attended the event, and spoke to ome of this year's contestants.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

THE GENOCIDE CONTINUES IN BOSNIA, AND SCOTT SIMON QUESTIONS WHETHER WE CARE ENOUGH.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with psychoanalyst Jeffrey asson and biologist Susan McCarthy about their new book, WHEN ELEPHANTS WEEP: HE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF ANIMALS (Delcorte Press, 1995).

SIMON/ORANGE CUCUMBER: A CUCUMBER, NEW TO THIS COUNTRY, ORANGE WHEN CUT OPEN AND HIGH IN BETA CAROTENE, IS NOW GROWING VERY WELL AT THE USDA'S VEGETABLE CROPS RESEARCH LABORATORY IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, AND SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PHILLIPP SIMON, A RESEARCH GENETICIST IN CHARGE OF THE PROJECT.

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was etonated in the New Mexico desert. This marked the beginning of the nuclear ge, and the ignited the spark that fired the nuclear arms race. The test-bomb as designed and built with remarkable speed by some of the nation's top hysicists.

THIS WEEKEND, THE NEW YORK EDITION OF NEWSDAY CLOSES DOWN TOMORROW...ANOTHER VICTIM OF NEW YORK'S NEWSPAPER WARS. NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE REPORTS.