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NPR'S Brooke Gladstone reports on an Austin Texas television station's effort to reduce the violence in its local newscasts. News executives at K-VUE have adopted experimental guidelines for determining whether certain violent pictures or stories should even air. Its local competitors accuse K-VUE of arrogantly filtering the news. Yet the station's newscasts are number one in its market.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says politicians in Washington will do anything for a vote. And both Democrats and Republicans in Washington are guilty of it. Republicans used to say no way to healthcare and minimum wage, now with the November elections in mind, they seem to have changed their minds. The White House is just as guilty of these campaign politics.

Congressional budget committees took up the Republicans' new proposal for the fiscal year 1997 budget today. The plan, intended to lead to a balanced federal budget in six years, includes a smaller tax cut and fewer cuts in domestic spending than previous proposals. Congressional Democrats criticized the budget plan, but President Clinton called it "movement in the right direction". NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Diedre Berger reports from Hamburg, Germany, on the trial in which an American is accused of distributing neo-nazi propaganda...an illegal act in Germany. Gary Lauck of Lincoln, Nebraska, was arrested in Denmark last year and extradicted to Germany for the trial.

Susan speaks with medical economist Brad Kirkman-Liff about how medicare compares with other world programs.

Commentator Frederica Matthews-Green reflects on the phenomenon of everyday people who demonstrate deep faith. She tells the story of Michael, a local plumber and fellow member of a small Eastern Orthodox congregation, who recently went off to become a monk. As the congregation tearfully sent him off, Matthews-Green noted the extraordinary number of people like Michael who live lives of faithful devotion. Negative images of religious people in the media are unfair stereotype, she says, because most deeply religious people are just like the rest of us, and Michael.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on a new genetic test for breast cancer. But medical ethicists, doctors and patients are struggling with its implications.

A house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1940 is re-opened today a year after it closed for renovations and on the birthday of Wright, who was born 129 years ago.

Susan talks with Princeton University Creative Writing Teacher and novelist Elizabeth Benedict about her book "The Joy of Writing Sex -- designed to help the serious author write better sex scenes.

Commentator David Crystal says there are certainly one million words in the English language, and when you consider the new words that are being assimilated from English-speaking places around the world, there's almost no telling how big the language is.