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An investigative committee in Sacramento has concluded that the county's child-protective system places too much emphasis on family preservation at the expense of children's safety. The committee, which was formed after 3 year-old Adrian Conway was beaten to death at his home, also says that training for case workers could be improved. Robert Siegel speaks with the committee's chair, retired Superior Court Judge Eugene Gualco.

to the phone call he received yesterday from Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, informing him of Dole's plans to resign from the Senate and devote himself full time to his Republican presidential campaign.

Linda Wertheimer talks with former senator Howard Baker, who was Senate Majority Leader at one point in his career. When he ran for President, he did not resign from the Senate...a move he now views as a mistake.

President Clinton today announced a new policy on landmines that limits their use but falls short of a complete ban. Human rights activists had pushed for a ban on the weapons, but the Pentagon said that landmines are essential in some situations. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

Linda speaks with Father John Beal, associate professor of canon law at Catholic University in Washington, DC. He explains the law of excommunication as it applies to the blanket decree that went into effect yesterday in Lincoln, Nebraska. Twelve organizations have been singled out by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Lincoln, as being "perilous to the Catholic faith."

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the role of typewriters in th eUNABOMBER probe has highlighted how law enforcement officials study typewriters in their investigations. Forensics experts can identify the unique signature of an individual typewriter. But the advent of computers and printers has undermined this ability.

A seven-year-old girl trying to become the youngest person to fly across the country died today in a plane crash near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Heather Wessley of Wyoming Public radio reports that Jessica Dubroff was flying a four-seat Cessna with her father and her flight instructor. The plane was leaving Cheyenne in bad weather and crashed in a residential area about a half-mile from the runway. Flyers must be 16 to hold a license under FAA rules.

A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that young male and female physicians with the same specialty earn equal amounts of money, if they work the same number of hours. Linda Wertheimer speaks with the study's author, Laurence Baker, Professor of Health Research Policy and Economics at Stanford University. Baker says that this is good news, but that among older physicians, men still earn more than women.

who are participating in a welfare-to-work job training program... Their first paychecks highlight the rewards and pitfalls of their entrance into the work force.

Commentator Andrea Bernstein (BURN-stine) reflects on the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Colorado's Amendment 2, and President Clinton's statement on gay marriage.