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NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel Federal ruling in which a New York judge has held that victims of handgun violence can sue the firearms industry to discover whether it failed to take steps to prevent sales to illegal buyers.

Scott and NPR's Daniel Schorr review the week's news.

A few weeks before his suicide, Admiral Jeremy "Mike" oorda, Chief of Naval Operations, spoke peripherally about suicide in a speech. PR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr plays a portion of that speech, and iscusses the pressure Boorda was under from a number of different directions

over two popular, and partisan, proposals, a repeal of the gasoline tax and an increase in the minimum wage. Despite calls for action from both parties, the Senate remained at impasse.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Peter Kelsey from Sylmar, alifornia. His public radio station is KRCW in Santa Monica, California.)

Six months ago, in the wake of the OJ Simpson trial and the illion Man March, we presented a college student forum that discussed a wide ariety of racial issues. This week we brought those students back together as hey face graduation to see how the world looks to them now.

Playwrite and author Kevin Kling goes to the Metrodome in Minneapolis as part of his brother's bachelor party. The game was dull, but for these fans in the stands, an epic eventwould soon unfold from the bleachers.

The apparent suicide of the Navy's highest-ranking officer Admiral Jeremy Mike Boorda leaves a number of complicated issues unresolved. Boorda had been tapped to help the Navy cope with controversies ranging from allegations of sexual harrassment, to drug and cheating scandals at the Naval Academy, to problems with overall morale. NPR's Neil Conan reports.

A water bottling company is now making bottled water with added caffeine.