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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Lois Smith Brady, the "Vows" olumnist for the Sunday New York Times newspaper. According to Brady, modern rides and grooms are moving away from the more traditional forms of wedding ress, guest favors, and gifts.

Jacki talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg about the life of Supereme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger, who died this morning in Washington, D.C. was Chief Justice of the Court for 17 years until he retired in 1986.

Jacki talks to film maker George Stoney and former cotton mill worker Lucille Thornburgh about the film the "Uprising of '34" to be aired on Public Television on Tuesday June 27th. Stoney tells how he wanted to let the people involved in the cotton strike tell their own story - and Lucille Thornburgh, now 85, was one of those that was there...

Major general LEWIS MACKENZIE. He commanded the United Nations Peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia until he retired in 1993. Since then MACKENZIE has been critical of the UN's ability to command and control its forces. His best-selling book Peacekeeper (HarperCollins) is now available in paperback and updated with two new chapters.

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.