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DRIVING TEST: Sixteen year-old essayist Tamara Keith relates her ecent harrowing experience of taking the California state driver's license est.

Essayist Lester Sloan relates the experiences of classical pianist arl Jerome Malry (MAL-ree). Malry was the first African-American to be nvited to participate in the pretigious International Tchaikovsky ompetition. Malry also shares a love of traditional jazz and blues.

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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports on the resignation of Israel's head of security forces. The Shin Bet chief, whose identity remains anonymous, stepped down to take responsibility for a lapse in security that allowed the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that the announcement last week of three arrests in New York in an alleged cellular phone fraud ring is the latest chapter in an ongoing story. Estimates are that fraud will cost the cellular industry nearly a billion dollars this year. And even as the cellular companies come up with technologies to make cellular phones more secure, crooks manage to outsmart them every step of the way.

in the U.S. Capitol Dome's Statuary Hall: Each state is allowed two statues, but Colorado has only one. It seems the state can't agree on who the second statue should represent.

Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the death of a Palestinian terrorist who was believed to be behind a series of murderous suicide bombings in Israel. The Islamic group Hamas has accused Israeli agents of the death and has warned of revenge attacks.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BRUCE STEIN OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, HEAD OF A GROUP OF 500 SCIENTISTS WHO JUST ISSUED A REPORT ON THE NATION'S AT-RISK SPECIES.

NPR'S DEREK REVERON REPORTS ON THE LEGACY OF FOOTBALL COACHING GREAT DON SHULA, WHO OFFICIALLY LEFT THE MIAMI DOLPHINS YESTERDAY AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS. 4:30.

CONFINEMENT FARMING...RAISING HUGE QUANTITIES OF ANIMALS HEADED FOR OUR DINNER TABLES IN VERY SMALL SPACES...IS BOTH BIG BUSINESS AND A BIG ISSUE IN NORTH CAROLINA -- ESPECIALLY AFTER A NUMBER OF INCIDENTS LAST YEAR IN WHICH LAGOONS FULL OF ANIMAL WASTE OVERFLOWED.

The 104th Congress officially begins its second session this week. But NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that with budget negotiations still at an impasse, lawmakers are expected to accomplish few legislative matters this session. Today, the debt limit was the issue going back and forth between the White House and Congress. House Majority Leader Dick Armey says House GOP will block raising the debt limit until the White House accepts much of their agenda.