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Daniel talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten who is at the site of the Bosnia peace talks near Dayton, Ohio. Bosnia's warring factions may be close to an agreement. The talks are scheduled to end tomorrow morning.

SCOTT SIMON AND KEN BUNTING, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, DISCUSS THE WEEK'S TOP NEWS STORIES

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH JOURNALIST/PRODUCER HEDRICK SMITH ABOUT HIS PBS DOCUMENTARY "ACROSS THE RIVER." IT'S ABOUT THE POOR, PREDOMINANTLY BLACK WASHINGTON, D.C. NEIGHBORHOOD OF ANACOSTIA, WHERE HEDRICK SMITH HAS FOUND MANY "LOCAL HEROES," RESIDENTS WHO'VE WORKED TO BETTER THEIR OWN COMMUNITY -- A COMMUNITY THAT'S TOO OFTEN STEREOTYPED AS ONE OF LITTLE HOPE.

NPR'S ANNE GARRELS REPORTS ON WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BUY A HOUSE IN MOSCOW.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a reissue by the late mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian: Luciano Berio''s "Recital I for Cathy and Folk Songs."

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). Recently JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including Colin Powell on abortion, gun control and in-school prayer; ttorney General Janet Reno speaking about on-line pornography; and House peaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton on welfare reform.

THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT OF OUR SEMI-REGULAR RADIO SERIAL ... "JULIUS KNIPL (KEH-nipple): REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER."

SIMON/RAPPOPORT: WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT LOOKS BACK AT A WEEK OF BASEBALL PLAYOFF ACTION.

British writer NICK HORNBY. His autobiographical memoir about being an obsessed soccer fan, Fever Pitch (1992, now in paperback, Penguin) achieved cult status. With his second book, and his first novel High-Fidelity one reviewer writes that HORNBY has "established himself in England as a maestro of the male confessional." High-Fidelity (Riverhead Books, div. of Putnam) is about 36-year old Rob Fleming, an obsessed record-collector, who's just lost his girlfriend, a casualty of his devotion to music.

IN CELEBRATION OF WEEKEND EDITION SATURDAY'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY, WE CONTINUE THE AIRING OF SOME OF OUR FAVORITE PIECES. THIS WEEK WE OFFER A STORY FROM 1990, WHICH PROFILED IDENTICAL TWIN SISTERS MARRIED TO IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHERS.