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Fourteen year-old dancer and choreographer Rasta Thomas talks ith host Liane Hansen about his lyrical jazz and hip hop combinations. Full of oth talent and energy, Rasta is considered to be one of modern ballet's rising tars.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli (po-ZHO-lee) reports from Belgrade on the osnian Serb's defiant stand against the Dayton agreement. Yesterday, Bosnian erb general Radko Mladic (MLA-ditch) vowed to oppose leaving Sarajevo under the ontrol of the Bosnian goverment.

Danny speaks with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who recently returned from his first trip to Vietnam since the war ended some 20 years ago.

Daniel talks with Dr. Jeanne McCauley, chief researcher of a new study on women and abuse. According to McCauley, her study reveals that 1 in 3 women report having experienced physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lives. And that often these women will show up in a doctor's office complaining of symptoms that have no apparent cause. The implications, McCauley says, are that women who are or have been in abusive situations sometimes exhibit other kinds of physical symptoms, such as stomach aches, head aches, dizziness or urinary tract problems that may have nothing directly to do with the abuse but are a result of it. We follow the McCauley interview with a story by Dr. Richard Weinberg, a gastroenterologist, who once had a patient who complained of stomach problems. While there was nothing physically wrong with her, Dr. Weinberg discovered that her stomach complaints were a product of stress due to a rape that had occurred several years before.

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NPR'S Margot Adler reports that the public schools in New Haven, Connecticut have had their share of problems: high dropout rates...rampant teen pregnancy...the kind of urban disfunction that makes going to school really tough, for kids and teachers alike. Five years ago, in an effort to turn things around, the New Haven schools embarked on an ambitious experiment...one designed to teach kids the life skills they'd need to grow and develop as emotionally healthy adults...to acquire what some researchers have called "emotional literacy"...or "emotional intelligence."

Richard Hearney is the second highest ranking officer in the U.S. Marines. This past week he visited the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange to see what the energetic floor traders there can teach marines about quick decision-making. Daniel speaks with the general about his experience.

Danny speaks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold, who's in Iowa attending a debate among all the Republican presidential candidates.

Liane speaks with author Bill Milkowski about about his iography of jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius, considered by many to be the "greatest ass player who ever lived." Pastorius developed manic depression in his later ears, and died in 1985 after a bar fight. Milkowski's book, "Jaco: The xtraordinary And Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, the World's Greatest Bass layer." (Miller Freeman Books)

Danny discusses the coming deployment of American troops to Bosnia with peace activist Marcus Raskin of the Institute for Policy Studies, former army major Lillian Fluke,. community activist and teacher Janeice View .. and 14-year old student Issetta Mobley. We spoke with the group once before, on July 4, 1994, about the issue of patriotism.

SIMON/ ANTARCTICA: IT RAINED THIS WEEK AT MCMURDO SOUND, ANTARCTICA -- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 24 YEARS!!! SCOTT GETS A WEATHER REPORT FROM ERIC CHANG AT MCMURDO. 2:45.

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