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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the latest ave of violence in the Palestinian territories, and what the Israeli government lans to do about it.

Daniel talks to Charles Hughes of the Univeristy of Utah School of Medicine about a new appendix to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard reference work on psychiatric conditions. The addition to the appendix deals with culture bound syndromes, which are pathologies specific to certian cultures.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.

NPR'S ANTHONY BROOKS REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE 1986 BLAST AT THE THEN-SOVIET UNION'S CHERNOBYL ATOMIC STATION--NOW THOUGHT TO BE MUCH MORE DIRE THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED.

SIMON/LAGAZIO: SCOTT TALKS WITH ITALIAN BARON CARLO LAGAZIO. HE'S A LITTLE SHORT OF FUNDS, SO HE'S PUTTING HIS TITLE ON THE MARKET. ASKING PRICE: $61,000.

WEEKEND EDITION'S SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT GIVES HIS PREDICTIONS ON THIS WEEKEND'S NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYOFF GAMES.

SCOTT TALKS WITH PETER GURALNICK, AUTHOR OF "LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS--THE RISE OF ELVIS PRESLEY" (LITTLE BROWN). THE BOOK TRACES THE FIRST 24 YEARS OF PRESLEY'S LIFE.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH BILL MOYERS ABOUT HIS SPECIAL PROGRAM NEXT WEEK ON PUBLIC TELEVISION TITLED "WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT VIOLENCE?" ITS FOCUS IS ON VIOLENCE AND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND WHAT SOME COMMUNITIES ARE DOING TO CURB IT.

With block grants being the new mantra for how to allocate federal dollars, NPR's Jon Greenberg profiles a community in Baltimore that went from burned out buildings to a revitalized neighborhood with the block grant scheme.

FROM MEXICO CITY, NPR'S DAVID WELNA REPORTS ON NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TWO HI PROFILE POLITICAL MURDER CASES, AND HOW THEY HAVE AFFECTED THAT COUNTRY'S AILING ECONOMY.