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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.

NPR's Martha Raddatz visits two schools in and around Sarajevo -- one which serves predominantly Muslim students, and the other primarily Serb students -- to examine what children in this war-torn region are learning about the war and how they feel about the planned restoration of Bosnia's multiethnic society.

NPR's Peter Overby reports that both Mississippi senators seeking to succeed Robert Dole as majority leader have political action committees known as leadership PACS. Members can use such PACS to help their colleagues with campaign funding, and maybe even to curry favor with those whose votes they'll seek when running for congressional leadership jobs.

IN AN AUDIO POST CARD FROM LONDON, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS EXPLORES THE PROBLEMS OF ETTIQUETTE AND THE TEMPATATIONS OF THE FLESH THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED BY MAD COW DISEASE.

P-R's Wade Goodwyn reports on today's memorial services.

For years, ranchers and environmentalists have locked horns over who gets to use the land and how. But many on each side are getting tired of all the fighting and now, as Sandy Tolan reports, they're starting to work and even manage the land togther.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on an investigation by New York City and by the state that shows how the case of abused-to-death 6 year old Elisa was bungled...and how other cases have also slipped through the social welfare cracks.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu is quite struck by Timothy Leary's decision to have his suicide be a live event on the internet.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that many while politicians got caught up in the debate over "whole language" reading instruction, many teachers have begun searching for a middle way that adds classic "phonics" instruction. "Whole language" stresses using good literature to get kids interested in reading, while phonics has emphasized basic reading skills--the ability to sound out words--and for years, supporters of the two systems have argued over which is more effective. Now, states like California, which was heavily invested whole language, are returning to phonics, but many educators are saying the best way is to combine the two approaches.

In the second of two reports on Mexican immigrants, NPR's David Welna visits New Rochelle, a wealthy suburb of New York City which has became a favorite destination of young men from the poor town of Cotija (coh-TEE-ha) in central Mexico. A few thousand Mexicans--legal and illegal--live in New Rochelle. They're part of an eastward drift among growing numbers of Mexican immigrants attracted by good wages and little fear of immigration raids. Swamped by the massive illegal population in the southwest, the immigration service doesn't have the resources to focus on places like New Rochelle.