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NPR's Ted Clark looks at the history of the armistice in Korea, and why 43 years ago North and South Korea would not agree to peace. In 1953, the South Koreans objected to peace, but today it is the North that is balking.

There was a summit in Washington this week to discuss the politics of meaning, a new political movement offering progressives/liberals a way to 'reclaim' the family values issue which has been monopolized by the right. They held a Summit on Ethics and Meaning and proposed a "Covenant with American Families", their answer to the Christian Coalition's Contract with American Families. Lynn Neary reports.

Linda talks with Erik Larson, a staff writer for Time Magazine, about the illegal firearms market and how Chinese (and other) illegal weapons find a market in the United States. The traders bringing these weapons into the country are selling a large number of them to dealers for the gun shows that tour the nation. Yesterday's seizure of two thousand automatic weapons from China has brought the problem of illegal firearms trading into the national spotlight. (Larson is the author of "Lethal Passage," published in paperback last year by Vintage Books.)

that has changed the way scientists study the sun. A spacecraft called SOHO was launched last December. In its orbit around the sun... instead of the Earth... SOHO is providing accurate and startling new data.

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 Kristine Holmgren says in the nation's heartland, young people are suffering from the same issues as the rest of the nation---single parent familes, poverty...and then isolation, boredom and a tendency to reckless behavior.

NPR's Steve Inskeep (INZ-keep) reports on the ruins of a Scottish castle that stand on a tiny island in the middle of the Hudson River in upstate New York ... ruins which appear on the misty water like a chunk of debris from some medieval flood. The castle was built as a home and warehouse by Francis Bannerman, a turn-of-the-century weapons dealer. Today, his castle is seen by thousands of commuters in passing trains...and an effort is underway to stabilize the ruins before they collapse into the harbor.

South Korea, Japan and the United States have pledged millions in food aid to North Korea, which is said to be experiencing the worst food crisis in its history. Robert talks with Douglas Coutts (KOOTS), North American director of the United Nations World Food Program about the food shortages in North Korea. Mr. Coutts recently traveled to North Korea to work at various rural food distribution sites. It has been said that the country is experiencing food shortages because of the nation's collective farming structure...and the worst flooding in a century. Sixty-five percent of the population receives food allotments of 250 grams per day.

Now that Orange County has managed to climb out of the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy in history, the disaster seems, in retrospect, one that appeared mostly on paper. But as NPR's Elaine Korry reports, the nightmare was all-too-real to the people who make Orange County run...and it won't be over for some time.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on an industrial-environmental deal that could only have been made in California. After a beach eroded to expose oil pipelines, Chevron replaced it with new sand. But that ruined the surfing, and Chevron had to fix it. The company employed a surf engineer who's building a unique breakwater to create new but gnarly waves. It's the first such project anyone's heard of, but probably not the last.