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SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

Daniel talks with the assistant city editor of the Chicago Tribune, Bill Rectenwald, about the heat wave in Chicago and the recent deaths there. Rectenwald says the temperatures are in the triple digits and police are mobilizing to insure the sick and elderly survive and to avoid the large number of deaths that occured earlier this month. Rectenwald says though such intense heat is not unusual in other states, Chicagoans are unaccustomed to such extreme temperatures.

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S INA JAFFE REPORTS ON THE TWO-WEEK CROSS COUNTRY TOUR OF MORE THAN 200 WORLD WAR II AIRCRAFT KNOW AS "FREEDOM FLIGHT AMERICA," A COMMEMORATION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR II.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Carl Cannon of the Baltimore Sun about a ew issues in the news this past week, including the Congressional hearings on oth the Whitewater affair and the government raid on the Branch Davidian ompound in Waco, Texas; plus, President Clinton's public support of affirmative ction, and the the increased involvement of the United States in the Bosnian onflict.

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LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: NORA RAUM & MICHAEL LELAND

The rapid spread of gambling casinos throughout the United tates is threatening the survival of the horse racing industry. NPR's Don onyea reports on the various ways race track owners are trying to bring ustomers back to their venues.

Liane Hansen talks with biographers Judith and Neil organ about children's book author Ted Geisel (GUY-zell). Under the pseudonym Dr.Seuss," (SOOS) Geisel wrote such classics as THE CAT IN THE HAT, GREEN EGGS ND HAM, and HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. The Morgan's new book about his ife and work is titled, DR. SEUSS AND MR. GEISEL: A BIOGRAPHY (Random House ooks).

Michael speaks with NPR's Cheryl Devall, who's covering the annual meeting of the NAACP. It's the organization's first meeting under the leadership of its new president, Myrlie Evers-Williams.

The prominent voice this past week was that of the Los ngeles County Court's clerk reading the "not guilty" verdict in the O.J. impson trial

While on assignment in Los Angeles, Daniel attempts to drive around the city with the aid of a computer called a "Global Positioning System" or G-P-S. The computer is mounted on the dashboard and is programmed to guide you thru a city to a specific destination. Daniel also talks with an Automotive Technologies manager at Rockwell International, the company that sells the G-P-S to companies.