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2: Writer MARY KARR. She has two volumes of poetry The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. Karr has won "Pushcart Prizes" for both poetry and essays, and her work appears in such magazines as Granta, Ploughshares, and Vogue. She has a new novel called The Liars' Club (Viking). KARR currently teaches literature and creative writing at Syracuse University upstate New York.

2: Writer ANNE LAMOTT'S. Her new book is Bird By Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life (Pantheon Books). LAMOTT talks about the nuts and bolts of how to write but also how to live a writer's life. Her other books include Operating Instructions. LEBOWITZ was a book reviewer for Mademoiselle. (REBROADCAST FROM 1

GARDENING: SCOTT SIMON TALKS TO WEEKEND EDITION GARDENING EXPERT KETZEL LEVINE ABOUT THE "VEGETABLE GARDENER'S" SEASON. THEY ARE JOINED BY BARBARA DAMROSCH, AUTHOR OF "THE GARDEN PRIMER," (WORKMAN PUBLISHING) AND CO-HOST OF "GARDENING NATURALLY" ON THE LEARNING CHANNEL.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Joanne Finnegan, author of HATTERED DREAMS - LONELY CHOICES: BIRTHPARENTS OF BABIES WITH DISABILITIES TALK BOUT ADOPTION (Bergin & Garvey - an imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group). innegan wrote the book as a result of her personal experience with the painful ecision of giving up a disabled infant for adoption. The book is meant to be a esource for other parents considering alernative care for children with isabilities.

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From Seattle, Paula Wissel of member station KPLU reports on the difficulties faced by the cellular telephone industry. In attempting to put up enough radio towers and antennas to complete a national wireless network, firms have run across local community opposition.

Critic Bob Mondello reviews the latest film from Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore. The film is called "A Pure Formality," and stars Gerard Depardieu.

Producer Dan Collison prepared this profile of a woman named Barbara, who is an illegal Polish immigrant living in Chicago. She's been there for three years and still finds herself caught -- legally, financially and emotionally --- between two worlds, and facing an uncertain future.

Reporter Chris Arnold has this story about the California air force base that's slated to be shut down as part of the nation's military downsizing. Upwards of 13 thousand people could lose their jobs if the base is closed.

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New York State Governor George Pataki pah-TOCK-ee) has proposed to effectively reduce funding for the City University f New York by 25 percent. These cuts would wipe out the English language nstruction provided to immigrants who attend the public university. David Sears eports that the elimination of these language programs could potentially lock mmigrants out of the the city's education system.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome on the rise in neo-nazi etworks throughout Europe. Organizations that track the movements of these hate roups say they have been especially successful in spreading their message over he Internet, as well as through more traditional forms of propaganda, much of hich is generated in the United States.