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A new report released today by the General Accounting Office says the Internal Revenue Service had botched a multi-billion dollar modernization project. The project, to replace the agency's thirty-year-old computer system, has already cost taxpayers more than four billion dollars. The GAO says the new system is way over budget, far from being finished, and riddled with problems. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

militant Islamic group Hamas. Israel has sealed off Gaza and the West Bank, and has resorted to tactics not used since the intifada, or Palestinian uprising, in 1988. Hamas says it is undeterred by the Israeli aggression, and has promised renewed terrorist attacks against Israel.

Laura Sydell of member station WNYC reports that William Bratton, New York's high profile police commissioner is resigning after two years in charge of the nation's largest police department. The resignation comes amid speculation that Mayor Giuliani at times bristled at Bratton's high profile.

NPR's Margot Adler reports on what we know about the ideas that have driven the Unabomber to plant 15 bombs. In a diatribe published last year in the Washington Post and the New York Times, the Unabomber describes his belief that modern technology has created an alienated, depersonalized society. His beliefs are more or less an amalgam of anti-technology writings from a number of writers.

Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer read listeners letters. Letters can be sent to 635 Massachussetts Ave, NW; Washington, DC 20001 or by E-mail to ATC@NPR.org

One of the most important...and controversial...West Coast sculptors of the 1950's through the '90's (but especially the 1960's), Kienholz (pronounced KEEN-holz) created life-sized tableaux comprised of casts of human figures and real objects in various settings: "Back Seat Dodge" and "The Illegal Operation" are perhaps his best-known....not to mention most self-explanatory...titles. The first major retrospective of his work EVER is at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York city now. Karen Michel reports

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the fighting in Lebanon and the prospects for diplomacy in solving the confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister says he will continue the shelling until Hezbollah stops its attacks, and other countries seem to be taking a wait-and-see attitude.

Commentator David Brooks thinks Mr. Clinton can learn a thing or two from Russian President Boris Yeltsin during his visit to Moscow... like how to come up with a really catchy campaign slogan.

Linda walks a portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal with