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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.

Robert talks to author Brenda Stevenson about her book Family and Community in the Slave South. Which tells the story of Blacks and Whites in the early days of Loudon County, Virginia. She has found that contrary to many other histories, there is little evidence of strong nuclear family life among slaves. She says the cause is partly traced to the central role of extended family in west africa which precluded european-style nuclear family -- and the habit of slaveowners moving individual slaves around, destroying relationships.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports the Air Force T-43 carrying Secretary Ron Brown and delegation wasn't equipped with the so called black box or flight data recorder. The pentagon says that's because the aircraft was procured as a training aircraft...and so it didn't come with that euipment as civilian aircraft do.

founders of the on-line computer investment forum known as the Motley Fool. The brothers say they started the service to help independent stock market investors gather information which can improve their chances of making more profitable choices.

Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines the relationship between law enforcement and the press- one that can become too close in a world of image conscious federal authorities and fiercely competitive news organizations.

about the detention of the Unabomber suspect... and the 18 years of terror he is accused of.

some of its evaluation processes. The new policy only deals with low risk medical devices like gloves and thermometers... but there are bills before Congress that would allow high risk devices like heart valves to be evaluated by private companies.

with three girls who have gone to work with their parents today. They speak with the Baltimore Police Commissioner Tom Frazier and his daughter Alexandra. Alexandra says she is impressed by his private bathroom and conference room. We also hear from a trader on the Chicago Stock Exchange -- George Martin and his daughter Annie, who got to take the EL, buy a newspaper and see her dad really busy trading stocks. Eva Mortimer-Maibeth is a 10-year who went to work with her mother Claire Mortimor who is a nurse practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco.Eva was one of a hundred children who toured the hospital today.

Linda talks to Joanna Weschler, the United Nations representative of Human Rights Watch. The United States and the European Union proposed at a meeting this week in Geneva that the UN's commission on Human Rights take up a proposal to criticize China's human right record. However, China's political maneuvering among the members of the commission kept the proposal from being debated. Weschler says that is not good for the future of human rights in China because it indicates that China feels that it is about the rules of international relations.