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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. 8:15 This week's on-air player lives in Dover, Ohio and listens to W-K-S-U and -O-U-C).

Following last week's Supreme Court decision on drug testing Michael talks to Joseph Gfroerer, chief of the National Household survey on drug abuse about the increase in drug use among school-age children.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr discusses the relationship etween fugitive financier Robert Vesco and Donald Nixon, nephew of the former resident.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports on block 37 in Chicago... an empty lot in the middle of the downtown area. The lot waws bulldozed in the 1980s real estate boom, but a planned development was never built. On Friday it was announced that Sears Roebuck is considering building on the site.

Jennifer Ludden from member station WBUR in Boston reports that increasingly new Asian immigrants faced with the prospect of daycare are sending their children back home to China where their grandparents take care of them.

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Classical Music Critic LlOYD SCHWARTZ reviews a new recording by the young Danish baritone singer Skovhus (BOV-uh SKO-fuss).We remember ESTER ROME of the Boston''s Women''s Health Collective. She co-founded the Collective which published the book that became women''s bible for healthcare, Our Bodies Ourselves. She talked with Terry in 1990 when the Women''s Health Collective was celebrating it''s 20th anniversary. ROME died of breast cancer on Saturday, June 24, 1995.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH BBC REPORTER CHARLES SCANLON IN SEOUL, KOREA, WHERE THE SAMPOONG DEPARTMENT STORE COLLAPSED LAST THURSDAY AND PEOPLE ARE STILL TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE.

Mike O'Connor reports on the latest news from the former Yugoslavia. his morning, fighting erupted in the hills outside the city, as Bosnian overnment troops fought Serbian separatists.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has unexpectedly freed two Americans who had been jailed in Iraq. The men, William Barloon and David Daliberti, were arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison after they entered Iraq from Kuwait by mistake last March. The Americans were freed after US Congressman Bill Richardson (of New Mexico) met with Saddam.

Daniel talks with Gary Millhollin (mil-HAHL-in) director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. Today is the 50th anniversary of first atomic test. Millhollin says there is a greater chance that nuclear weapons would be used today than at any time during the Cold War.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: SHAY STEVENS & LAURA KNOY