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on the damage that flooding has done to parts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Some residents say overdevelopment has contributed to the problem.

Veta Christy reports on Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequots Indians who have built a gambling empire and now want to invest profits to build high speed ferries.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on today's announcement that insurance regulators are ordering Prudential Insurance Co. to repay policyholders...and pay a record $35 million fine...for widespread unscrupulous sales practices at the nation's largest life-insurer.

NPR's Dan Charles explains how the kind of jet engine that exploded on a Delta flight over the weekend works, and how such incidents can occur.

A government study released today says that driving a cab is the most dangerous job in America. The second most dangerous job is being a sheriff. NPR's Melissa Block reports on how people who hold these jobs are reacting to this news. She talks with one New York cab driver who was held up at gunpoint several years ago says for three months after the attack he was too scared to drive his cab; now he never drives it at night. And a sheriff in Washington State says he's not surprised sheriffs have the second highest on-job homicide rate; he says there's a continual struggle to make the job safer, and more funding is the answer.

and how things look halfway through the season.

a reporter for Advertising Age magazine, about the liquor industry's recent foray into television ads. While not illegal, a gentleman's agreement had kept hard liquor ads off the air. But now Seagram's has taken the plunge, to push its Crown Royal Canadian whiskey. If the campaign is successful, other companies would more than likely join Seagram's and the plethora of beer and wine commercials already on television.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports from the White House on President Clinton's first meeting with the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Though Clinton favored the election of Netanyahu's more moderate opponent in last May's election, both he and the new Prime Minister sought to patch up their differences and reaffirm traditional US-Israeli solidarity.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has a story about a bear named No Neck, who walked across the Florida Panhandle and three states until he got to Baton Rouge. Why Baton Rouge? Only No Neck knows.

of Yeltsin and his main Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov.

Noah talks with Colonel John R. Bourgeois (BOOR-zhwa), who is retiring today after seventeen years as the director of "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band. The band, once led by the legendary John Philip Sousa, has only had twenty-five directors in its history. Tonight marks Col. Bourgeois's last time conducting the group.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the verdict in the Whitewater trial has cast a shadow over President Clinton, who just a week ago was far ahead of Dole in the polls. Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 6. CHINA DISSIDENT -- Noah talks with Mike Jendrzejczyk (jenn-DREEZ-sick), the Washington Director of Human Rights Watch-Asia. Chinese police have detained dissident Wang Donghai (WAHNG dong-HY) after he and six other activists petitioned the National People's Congress on May 27th, demanding the release of political prisoners. Mr. Jendrzejczyk believes that paranoia in the Chinese government toward the democracy movement has increased in recent months as economic reforms have triggered more unrest. This recent round of arrests comes one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro- democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.