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V - Commentator Katherine Kersten says that although parents may closely supervise what their kids eat, seek out the best schools and monitor homework---they exercise little oversight and impose few standards when it comes to movies, TV and video games that fill kids' afterschool hours. Since entertainment is part of charachter building, that means beavis and butthead are the role models. she says children need to adopt heros and heroines worthy of admiration.

falls in love with a horse-- and finds her suburban state of mind challenged by the experience.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Dr. Robert Kirschner, forensic nvestigator and director of the International Forensic program for the group hysicians for Human Rights. He has just returned from a mass grave site nvestigation in Rwanda, and expects to go to Bosnia sometime in the Spring

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

a political columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, about the primary in Georgia next week. Georgia is one of nine states holding primaries on Tuesday, and a key state in determining southern voter sentiment this election year.

about plans to resurrect the airline as a full-service but low-cost carrier, based in Miami. Gandt is not optimistic the new Pan Am will be successful.

tee-Ace inhibitors that experts say may prolong the life of people in advanced stages of the disease. Physicians experienced in treating people with AIDS also enhance the longevity of their patients. But all of this will cost a lot.

CRUTCHES: Essayist Tim Brookes relates the life-lessons learned fter he was forced to hobble about on crutches for a few weeks.

Liane Hansen speaks to Joe Smith of member station WCPN in Cleveland, hio, and Diane Toomey of member station WUNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, bout recent polls in their states that attempt to evaluate the issues with hich voters are most concerned. The Ohio poll was released this past week, and he North Carolina poll is being released today in conjunction with the NPR lection Project.

Linda speaks with Robin Roberts of ESPN and ABC about tonight's match- up between Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. Both had retired from the game and with Magic's return this week, both are back...and Robin says it's like a dream come true! She also talks about Girls and Women in Sports day...and says it's important for young girls to see strong, aggressive, and talented women athletes in action.

Singer-songwriter-poet-performance artist MAGGIE ESTEP. ESTEP calls herself "an angry, sweaty girl." As a teenager, she settled in New York City, and she's been in rock bands since the age of 17. She was the cover girl on the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine; the article inside called her "the leader of the spoken word pack." Her debut album was "No More Mr. Nice Girl." NUYO Records.

BALSAM OBIT: IN MEMORY OF CHARACTER ACTOR MARTIN BALSAM, WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WE PLAY A SCENE FROM THE MOVIE THAT WON HIM HIS ONLY ACADEMY AWARD.