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Commentator Donald McCaig notes the value of clean water - more of a rarity than one might imagine.

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Seven men were indicted yesterday for stealing thirteen million dollars worth of military equipment from an army base in western Wisconsin. Steve Busalacchi from Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison reports that the thieves sold the equipment to museums and collectors.

The White House and Congress settled on a bill authorizing numerous new parks yesterday. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the winners--San Francisco's Presidio Park, for example--and some of the losers, including Alaska's Tongass National Forest.

NPR's Steve Inskeep looks at new ads released by Republicans today to counter an aggressive ad campaign launched by the AFL-CIO in the districts of several dozen Republicans running for Congress. The union ads have made several GOP incumbents nervous and angry, and they've charged that their records are being distorted. The latest AFL-CIO round of advertising has come in the form of what the union describes as ``electronic voter guides.''

Madeleine Brand of member station WBGO reports on a candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey who is on the ballot state-wide but even his campaign workers can't vote for him...because they're all underage. The candidate is a history teacher at J.P. Stevens High School and his campaign is being run by his students.

campaigning in Florida.

at Emory University in Atlanta, about Republican gains in the Deep South. Southern states that were once dominated by Democrats are solidly Republican.

Robert talks with Lillian Pfluke, who retired this year from the Army with the rank of Major. She has spent time at Aberdeen, the base in Maryland where several men have been charged with sexual harassment. She says that she is very impressed with the way the Army is handling these allegations and with the efforts being made toward combating sexual harassment at all Army bases.

seemed to describe different economies belonging to different countries -- both named America.