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NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports from New York on an effort to help poor, battered women divorce their abusive husbands.

SCIENTISTS ARE USING A PROBE TO DREDGE THE BOTTOM OF MONO LAKE IN CALIFORNIA. WE MAY SOMEDAY LEARN FROM THIS 3,000 YEAR OLD LAKE IF LIFE FORMS EVER EXISTED ON MARS.

The Pope was in New York today. We hear a bit of tape from his mass this morning in Central Park, and then Daniel talks with two students and a professor at Catholic University about their feelings concerning the significance and relevance of the Pope and his visit to America

WEEKEND EDITION PRESENTS THE LATEST INSTALLMENT OF JULIUS KNIPL, REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER

TERRY JOHNSON..is a local organizer for the Philadelphia contingent headed to Monday's Million Man March. Johnson plans to walk to Washington to help symbolize his determination for a positive change in U.S. race relations. He and others will follow the path once used by the Underground Railroad.

Okay. OJ is over. And that got critic Bob Mondello musing about how Hollywood has treated with the subject of juries in film.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission met this week to examine race and sex discrimination in the nation's police forces.

NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that if you survey the wake drawn this week by Hurricane Opal, you'd find that the barrier islands off the northwest coast of Florida were especially hard hit. Residents who'd fled the area returned today for a temporary visit...that's all the authorities would allow them... to see what the storm had done to their homes and businesses.

Host Liane Hansen discusses the aftermath of the O.J. Simpson rial with Richard Cohen of the Washington Post and Clarence Page of the Chicago ribune. Page says we saw the flip-side of what white juries have been doing for ears...Cohen says while we can see raw emotion in the aftermath of the trial, e're slowly working toward better understanding between the races in this ountry.

KAZUO (ka-zoo-oh) ISHIGURO (ish-ee-gew-roe) won international recognition with his novel The Remains of the Day. He won the distinguished Booker Award for this book in 1989. It was later adapted to a movie starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. The Japanese born British writer has released his latest book The Unconsoled, Alfred A. Knopf 1995. A story about the mixed blessings of celebrity from the point of view of a concert pianist. Other titles by Ishiguro include: A Pale View of the Hills, An Artist of the Floating World

2: We talk with RAUL MALO the lead singer for the country music band The Mavericks. The group's latest CD is "Music For All." by MCA Nashville 1995.

Daniel talks with Lonny Shavelson, author of "A Chosen Death," (Simon and Schuster) about the rights of the handicapped to chose assisted suicide. In his book, Shavelson tells the story of one very intelligent, life-affirming man who was completely incapacitated as the result of an accident as a young boy. And though this man enjoyed life in spite of his confinement to a wheel chair and his inability to speak, the physical and emotional limitations became too great a burden and he ultimately chose to fast to death.