Search results for

Daniel talks to Ariel Bloch and Chana Bloch, who have retranslated one of the books of the Bible, the Song of Songs. Traditionally read during the Jewish festival of Passover, it is a passionate love poem that takes place during the spring.

THIS WEEK, THE HERMITAGE MUSEUM IN ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, UNVEILED A COLLECTION OF IMPRESSIONIST AND POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS. MANY HAD NOT BEEN SEEN IN 50 YEARS AND THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED DURING WORLD WAR II. IN FACT, THESE PAINTINGS WERE LOOTED IN GERMANY BY SOVIET "TROPHY BRIGADES," AND BROUGHT BACK TO RUSSIA AND HIDDEN IN VAULTS UNTIL NOW. NPR'S BROOKE GLADSTONE WENT TO THE OPENING.

Jacki speaks with NPR's Tom Goldman about prospects that the major league baseball season will begin on time tomorrow evening. Yesterday, a federal judge issued an injunction against the owners, prompting the players to offer to end their nearly eight-month old strike. Team owners will meet tomorrow to decide whether to go along with the players, or to lock them out.

FROM MEMBER STATION WBFO IN BUFFALO, IAN ARONSON REPORTS ON EFFORTS BY THAT CITY'S MAYOR RAISE MUCH NEEDED REVENUE. HE PROPOSES TO CHARGE ON-PROFIT GROUPS WHAT HE CALLS "USER FEES."

***** IN RIVERDALE, MARYLAND *****

Jacki speaks with NPR's David Welna in Port-au-Prince on the day that the United Nations assumed responsibility for peace and security in Haiti. Yesterday, President Clinton handed over peacekeeping authority to the U.N., six months after 20,000 American troops restored Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. Welna says security remains the biggest problem in Haiti, and he says some Haitians are impatient with the pace of reform.

Producer Julian Crandall Hollick's second installment of his eries about the pavement dwellers on Apna (AHH-p'nah) Street. "Samina's SAH-mih-nuh) Story," follows the long, torturous route to Bombay of one poor ut determined woman. Samina had to overcome a shiftless husband, the nnecessary death of a child, the constant bulldozing of the hut she built, as ell as the daily search for food in order to provide for herself and her hildren.

On this April Fools Day, NPR science reporter Joe Palca has a story about a body of water called the The Firth of Forth, which runs through the Scottish city of Edinburgh, and a plan to use high-tech magnets to part the waters, the better to handle rush-hour traffic with.

As thousands of women journey to eijing this week to particpate in the Non-Governmental Organization's Forum on omen, Liane Hansen looks at the global state literacy among woman. There are urrently 600 million illiterate women worldwide, and both the United Nations nd the NGO's have made enhancing literacy programs a priority over the next ecade.

Daniel talks to human rights activist Harry Wu, who was held by the Chinese government for 66 days and released during the past week. Wu says that while he was detained, he kept a secret diary in the margins of his dictionary, using the page numbers as a code for the date. He says that he loves China and will continue to return there.