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Commentator Elissa Ely (EEL-eye) writes about a psychiatric patient who always carried his resume and taked of reading great literature-- Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and the writings of Spinoza. Ely committed him to a hospital despite his insistence that he is quote "in all his fine senses." Years later, she has some perspective on the experience.

The Breakfast club -- obituary of Don McNeill - longtime host of the radio program "DON MCNEILL'S BREAKFAST CLUB". He was 88 and died Tuesday of respitory illness. He program lasted 35 years and was done live WITH an audience. Noah talks to Chicago Broadcast Historian Sterling "RED" Quiland and we hear ecerpts from some of the Shows.

President Clinton today announced a new policy on landmines that limits their use but falls short of a complete ban. Human rights activists had pushed for a ban on the weapons, but the Pentagon said that landmines are essential in some situations. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

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). JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the recent memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen about the future of Afghanistan. The Taliban say Afghans who worked with Americans aren't in danger and women may work outside the home.

The Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan. What does it mean for the Afghan people? In the 90s, when last they ruled, it was a brutal, utterly ruthless regime that terrorized its people.

Names, Social Security numbers and birth dates were compromised; phone numbers, account numbers, passwords and financial information were not. T-Mobile is offering free identity protection services.

It was only after the freezer had been cleaned, that grandma warned her relations about the money she kept in it. The trash company picked through a truck-full of garbage and returned $25,000.

Tangtang Zhao, 34, allegedly sold 125 authentic Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccination cards to 11 buyers in March and April.

Janet Beat is known for her trailblazing work in electronic music. The album, Pioneering Knob Twiddler, features compositions she made on synthesizers, tape machines and other acoustic instruments.

Although personal anecdotes are included throughout, Rafia Zakaria's aim is not to explore her own pain but to retrace the history of how white feminism has caused unending trauma through centuries.

The grants ranged from several thousand to 10 million dollars and were handed out to about a third of the restaurants that applied, leaving others scratching their heads as to why they weren't accepted.