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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that US Secretary of State Warren Christopher met with new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (n'tahn-YAH-hoo), but failed to get sought-for assurances that Netanyahu would honor his predecessor's peace process commitments.

In the second of two reports, NPR's Ann Cooper profiles another Russian family, how the members view their lives and how they intend to vote in next week's Presidential run-off election. Today's report is on a middle class family living in Moscow that supports Russian President Yeltsin.

In northeastern Mississippi where two black churches were burned last week near the town of Kossuth, both black and white residents have rallied to support the black congregations. Race relations have been generally smooth in Alcorn County, but local leaders fear the fires may have been set to create conflict between the races. NPR's Debbie Elliot reports.

Linda interviews Alexandra Nechita (nuh-KEE-ta)...a ten year old artist...and her parents. Young Nechita has been compared to Picasso-- she is an abstract artist whose paintings are selling for thousands of dollars. She is doing a huge tour for the book of her paintings called "Outside the Lines" and giving dozens and dozens of interviews. Despite all the attention, she is looking forward to going home, seeing her baby brother and taking him to Chuck E. Cheese's pizza parlor.

Linda talks with Governor Roy Romer of Colorado about plans to create a "virtual university." Romer and the governors of Arizona, Idaho, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming yesterday signed a plan to develop the home-based higher education program, which will utilize computers as the primary teaching tool. Romer says the program is designed mostly for people in jobs and that the first catalogue will be put together over the next six months.

There's a theory put forward by R. Murray Schafer in the book "The Soundscape," that people will hum at the frequency at which their national electrical power is distributed -- either 60 or 50 Hertz. We put the theory to a worldwide test.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the reaction to the life sentence given to Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last November. Most people welcomed the sentence, though they have yet to come to terms with the traumatic events surrounding the assassination.

Commentator George Berdes (BURR-diss) is a retired foreign policy analyst, living in Eagle River Wisconsin. He says it's no fun to be stereotyped as a senior citizen and tells the story about the time he walked into a restaurant and the "cute-young thing" behind the countertreated him as if he were deaf, dumb and blind.

Daniel talks with photographer Thomas Roma who took pictures at 52 African-American Christian churches in Brooklyn - many of them storefront churches. The photographs depict congregants and pastors during sunday morning worship services. Some of these photographs are in the book, "Come Sunday:Photographs by Thomas Roma" (published by The Museum of Modern Art). The photographs are currently on dispay at The Museum of Modern Art in New York through June 18th, 1996. Included in this interview is music from two churches: Reverend Jerry Burns and the Open Door Singers (of the Open Door Outreach Ministry/Brooklyn) and The Mo Gbeke Mi Le O Choir Band (of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Olutunu/Brooklyn).