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Jamey Turner is many things. He's a professional clarinetist, he plays the wrench harp and the musical saw. He's also well known as one of those few individual who can actually make music from a table loaded with brandy snifters half filled with water...an instrument known as the glass harp. Joe visits with Mr. Turner to talk about just how all of this comes together to create music that is both beautiful and ethereal.

Jackie talks to Charles Hall, an Advertising executive who has launched his own campaign to try and combat date rape. He is distributing evocative posters with the words "this is not an invitation to rape me" written in the centre. Hall launched this campaign after a female friend was attacked following his 30th birthday party. He will be releasing television and radio commercials later this year.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: BILL REDLIN & SHAY STEVENS

2: Clinical neurology professor and doctor OLIVER SACKS. He is the author of six books about his patients, people with autism, Parkinson's Disease, Tourette's Syndrome, and other neurological disorders. SACKS was portrayed by Robin Williams in the 1991 film version of his book "Awakenings." His other books include "A Leg to Stand On," and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat." His newest is "An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales," which tells the stories of the disorders of seven of his subjects. (Alfred P.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including convicted murderer Colin Ferguson, the prosecutor in the erguson case, several witnesses to the crime; and O.J. Simpson prosecutor arcia Clark cross-examining a police witness; and convicted spy Aldrich Ames

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI REV.S "VR.5," the new series on Fox about virtual reality.

Daniel talks with Dr. Alexis Clare, a fiber optics specialist at Alfred University in New York, about the stealthy properties of polar bear hair. She explains that because the hair prevents the bear from emitting any body heat, polar bears resist detection by infrared devices. They also resist ultraviolet detection.

BASEBALL: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JOSEPH NOCERA (no-SER-ah), A BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR GENTLEMEN'S QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. MR. NOCERA SAYS THAT THE SIX-MONTH OLD BASEBALL STRIKE IS NOT A TRADITIONAL LABOR DISPUTE.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH 40-YEAR-OLD DON AND 34-YEAR-OLD MARGIE McINTYRE IN ANTARCTICA, WHERE THEY HAVE SET UP A SATELLITE-LINKED TELEPHONE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE, FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS, BASIC SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS TO SCHOOLS IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG comments on metaphors used for the Internet.

In 1989, there was a small outbreak of an extremely contagious virus, the Ebola virus, in research monkeys in a lab in Reston, Virginia. The body is stripped of its clotting factors and victims essentially bleed to death. The army was brought in to stop the spread of the disease. RICHARD PRESTON has written book about the incident in The Hot Zone (Random House). (Aired 10

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH PAUL WAGNER, PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR OF THE DOCUMENTARY "OUT OF IRELAND - THE STORY OF IRISH EMIGRATION TO AMERICA." IT WILL BE SHOWN ON PBS LATER THIS YEAR. THERE IS A COMPANION BOOK: "OUT OF IRELAND" BY KERBY MILLER AND PAUL WAGNER, PUBLISHED BY ELLIOTT & CLARK PUBLISHING, WASHINGTON, D.C.