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NPR'S JIM ZARROLI REPORTS ON THE "AMERICAN BUSINESS COLLABORATION FOR QUALITY DEPENDENT CARE," FORMED THREE YEARS AGO BY SOME OF THE NATION'S BIGGEST COMPANIES, IN AN EFFORT TO ADDRESS EMPLOYEES' PROBLEMS IN CARING FOR CHILDREN AND ELDERLY RELATIVES....WHICH TRANSLATES TO COMPANY PRODUCTIVITY.

SIMON/CIRCUS: ACCIDENTS AND MISHAPS HAVE BEEN PLAGUING THE CLYDE BEATTY COLE BROTHERS CIRCUS, AND SCOTT SIMON TALKS, WITH THE HELP OF HIS TRANSLATOR PAPA PETROV, TO MEROSLAV PAMOUKOV (pah-MOO-kov), A BULGARIAN ACROBAT AND MEMBER OF THE PETROV TROUPE, WHO FELL 40 FEET FROM THE RUSSIAN SWING AND LANDED ON HIS HEAD.

Daniel talks to Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-WA, and Pamela Dunn, a former welfare mother, who were partners in a program called Walk a Mile in Your Sister's Shoes, which paired lawmakers with welfare recipients. Pamela Dunn said that she expected a Republican member of Congress to be participating in the program just for appearances but found that Rep. Dunn was very gracious and even changed her position on one issue because of their conversations.

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David Baron of member station WBUR in Boston reports on the effect that proposed cuts in medicare would have on teaching hospitals across the nation. The Medicare program is a major source of funding for teaching hospitals, a system which critics say has resulted in too many specialists being trained at government expense.

Host Liane Hansen talks with Norwegian Philosopher ostein Gaarder (YOH-steyn GORDER) about his book, "Sophie's World: A Novel bout The History of Philosophy" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Part novel, part hilosophy primer, "Sophie's World," explores some of the eternal questions sked by philosophers for centuries. "Sophie's World" is an international estseller. So far, it has sold about 3-1/2 million copies worldwide and has een translated into about 40 languages including English.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr explores how and why the nabomber's treatise came to be published.

Four-star General, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff COLIN POWELL. He has a new autobiography My American Journey (Random House, written with Joseph E. Persico), and an anxious audience, waiting to see if he will declare his candidacy for President of the United States. POWELL first came to the attention of the American public during the Gulf War, officiating at the televised gulf war briefings. POWELL retired from the military in 1993, after 35 years in uniform. During that time he was the Army's youngest brigadier general, as well as the youngest chairman ever of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Pop star BOY GEORGE. In 1982, he and his band Culture Club first hit the charts with, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" He has a new autobiography in which he says he got "trapped" in the image he created. His band feel apart, his relationship, and he developed a drug addiction. He's now recovered. He has a new autobiography, Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George. (written with George O'Dowd, published by HarperCollins.) He also has a new release, "Cheapness & Beauty," (Virgin).

At the peak of the Perseids this week, up to 100 meteors an hour can be caught shooting across the sky at 37 miles per second, leaving long streaks in their wake.

Workers simply don't earn enough money to keep up with skyrocketing rental rates across the country, the National Low Income Housing Coalition found in its latest Out of Reach report.