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On a day in February, Jason Reinier put a call out to sound recordists. He asked them to record the sounds in their neighborhoods, and to send those sounds to him . He took those sounds and put them together as an audio snapshot of February 17th 1996. We play them for you today on the first international noise awareness day. (8:00) (IN S

whether English should be made the official language of the United States. Tonight, we conclude our series with a commentary form Ruben Martinez, who is living in Mexico City, for a perspective from the other side of the border.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports on the battle in Congress over legalized gambling.

2: Film writer/director DAVID RUSSELL. He made his film debut with the prize-winning independent film, "Spanking the Monkey." His latest film is "Flirting with Disaster" starring Ben Stiller and Patricia Arquette.

Classical Music Critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the new two-cd set of a 1962 performance of the opera "Susannah." It features the legendary American soprana Phyllis Curtin. The cd set is available on the VAI label. Schwartz is Classical Music Editor of the Boston Phoenix.

Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, NPR's Dan Charles reports that similar nuclear plants continue to operate throughout the former Soviet Union. More than a dozen plants with similar design flaws remain in operation, despite calls to shut them down. The biggest impediment is money to pay to replace the power the plants generate.

be the Unabomber. Federal agents have detained Theodore Kacznski, a former math professor, who was living in Montana.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that a new study has shown that genetically engineered foods can produce unexpected food allergies. In the study, being published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that genetically engineered soybeans could provoke an allergic reaction in people who are allergic to nuts that supplied the engineered genetic material. An editorial accompanying the study says it raises questions about the adequacy of safeguards by the Food and Drug Administration.

Linda talks with Harley Shaiken, a labor specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, and David Cole, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan, about the strike at General Motors that has shut down 21 assembly plants across the country and threatens to escalate into a national ordeal. Cole talks about the industry's push to become leaner and their use of "just-in-time manufacturing." Following the lead of Japan, GM now keeps only a very small supply of critical components, like brakes, in stock. Shaiken explains how this practice gives union strikes considerable leverage because a small number of strikers can paralyze a large organization.

about the start of the NCAA basketball tournament.

Robert reads from the latest batch of listeners' comments.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that commentator Pat Buchanan says he will stay in the GOP presidential race despite calls from frontrunner Bob Dole that he end his campaign and help unite the Republican Party. Buchanan, campaigning in Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas in preparation for next week's Super Tuesday primary, said the contest isn't over yet and that Dole needs to address the concerns of Buchanan supporters over such issues as abortion and job security.