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Liane Hansen speaks with an unusual photographer who sends his cameras loft on kites.

Linda Wertheimer talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg about the investigation of Theodore Kaczynski. Federal agents are continuing their search of his cabin. In addition to bomb-making materials, they have also discovered writings.

NPR'S MARGOT ADLER VISITS CHRISTIE'S AUCTION HOUSE IN NEW YORK DURING ITS ANNUAL FREE APPRAISAL WEEKEND AND LEARNS FIRST HAND THAT TRUE VALUE ISN'T ALWAYS MEASURED IN DOLLARS AND CENTS.

Daniel speaks with Craig Buck about efforts to rebuild Bosnia's crippled economy. Buck leads a team from the US Agency for International Development. He says the top priorities for his team are creating jobs and rebuilding homes. He believes that economic recovery is essential for maintaining peace in the region.

The clocks in most parts of the US turn an hour forward on Sunday. Daniel talks to William Klepczynski (Klep CHIN ski), the Director of Time at the US Naval Observatory about the history of standard and daylight savings time in the US.

Daniel talks to Dave Beatty of the National Victim Center and Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Rhonda Saunders about stalking laws. In the past 25 months, many states have adopted statewide stalking laws, making it easier for law enforcement agencies to take action. However, Saunders says there is much more that state legislatures can do to toughen these laws across the country. According to the National Victim Center, currently 200,000 Americans are being stalked. For more information on victim centers in your area call the National Victims Center at 1-800-FYI-CALL.

NPR's Philip Davis reports on the arrival today of the bodies of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and others killed in a plane crash in Croatia earlier this week. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and families of the victims were at Dover Air Force Base to receive the bodies.

Daniel talks with epidemiologist Bob Snow about how mosquito nets can help curtail the spread of disease in Africa. Dr.Snow - of Oxford University and the Kenya Medical Research Institute - ran the Kenyan portion of a World Health Organization (W.H.O.) study on the effectiveness of insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

SCOTT TALKS WITH ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL ABOUT THE NEW COMIC FILM "FLIRTING WITH DISASTER."

a new government took power. In Freetown, Sierra Leone. There was a handover of power by the military, to the new civilian president -- Ahmad Tejan Kabbah [ah-med TEE-jin KAH-bah], is the first democratically-elected leader in Sierra Leone since the late 1970's. The rebels agreed earlier this week to extend a two-month cease-fire. The BBC's West Africa correspondent David Bamford reports.