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NPR'S CLAUDIO SANCHEZ REPORTS ON THE EFFORTS OF AN ELITE SCHOOL, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, TO DIVERSIFY IT'S STUDENT BODY. MANY WONDER IF SCHOOLS LIKE HOPKINS MUST LOWER STANDARDS TO ADMIT MINORITIES, BUT SCHOOL OFFICIALS DENY THAT IT IS THE CASE, SAY THAT MEASURES LIKE SAT SCORES ARE NOT THE ONLY MEASURES OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND NOTE THAT 3 OUT OF 4 OF MINORITY STUDENTS THAT THEY ADMIT GRADUATE.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ELAINE BEARER, PROFESSOR OF BOTH MUSIC AND MEDICAL SCIENCE, ABOUT A PIECE OF MUSIC SHE WAS COMMISSIONED TO WRITE, BY FELLOW ADMIRERS OF NEURO-SCIENCE PROFESSOR JOHN NICHOLS TO HONOR HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY LAST NOVEMBER. THE PIECE TITLED THE NICHOLLS TRIO ENDS WITH MUSIC BASED ON THE RYTHMIC FIRING OF PATTERNS OF THE NEURONS OF A LEECH. 8:11 (THE NICHOLLS TRIO MUSIC IS BEING PUBLISHED BY HILDEGARD PUBLISHING COMPANY, BRYN MAWR, PA 19010, 610-649-8649, AND A CD WILL BE ISSUED IN THE FALL OF 1995 BY ALBANY RECORDS, ALBANY, NY, 1-800-752

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Crimson Tide," the new submarine movie starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman.

NPR'S JOE PALCA EXAMINES THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE EBOLA VIRUS, WHICH IS CURRENTLY DEVASTATING ZAIRE, BEING SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD.

2: Novelist STANLEY ELKIN. He was called "one of the most entertaining stylists in contemporary American fiction." ELKIN's use of metaphor, "transforms grotesque situations and the drab vulgarity of popular consumer culture into comic affirmations of human existence." (from Contemporary Literary Criticism). His novels included, The MacGuffin, The Magic Kingdom, and others. ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago. ELKIN died of heart failure on Wednesday, May 31, 1995. His novel Mrs. Ted Bliss will be published in September. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

In the first of a series of reports on the African country of Namibia, Daniel explores the challenges a new democracy faces. Many of the concepts familiar to citizens of the United States like debate and lobbying are foreign to residents of Namibia, which gained its independence from South Africa five years ago.

In today's competitive world of produce - maintaining ideals about the quality and flavor of the fruits you grow has become increasingly difficult. David Mas Masumoto has had to compromise his ideals in order to keep making money off his peach orchard in southern California and in doing so is slowly weeding out a variety of peach his father began growing and one Masumoto still maintains is far better than any peach available today. In his book "Epitaph for a Peach" Masumoto writes about the demise of the "Suncrest" variety. "Epitaph for a Peach" is published by HarperSanFrancisco.

Daniel talks with CNN reporter Gary Striker who is in the Zairean town of Kikwit where there's been an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus which has killed at least 57 people since it resurfaced in March. Striker visited the hospital in Kikwit which he says is the epicenter of the outbreak. He describes what he saw.

We're going to follow a little league baseball team this summer, so today we attend one of their practices. The Yankees are half boys and half girls. Girls and Boys playing on the same baseball team is not THAT surprising these days.

FRENCH PROFESSIONAL LAUGHER JULIE HETTE AND SCOTT SIMON SHARE A FEW CHUCKLES.

Following the emotional reunion of Air Force Captain Scott O"Grady with his squadron the Pentagon is investigating reports that U.S. Intelligence knew of the existence of surface to air missiles in the area, the day before O'Grady's plane was shot down... NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

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