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the first phase of India's parliamentary elections. About 60-percent of India's estimated 590-million eligible voters are expected to cast ballots. The next phase begins later this week, and voting is scheduled to be completed on May 7th.

Trent O'Keefe reports from Australia on the massacre of at least 34 people on the island of Tasmania. The gunman began his killing spree at a popular tourist site. He continued shooting at a local pub before taking three hostages to a cottage. Police arrested the man after he set the cottage and himself on fire. Two bodies were found in the rubble. Police have yet to find the third hostage.

Commentator Elissa Ely was proud of the authority her white, medical coat gave her when she first wore it. But then she realized the coat can intimidate patients and that sometimes it's better to take it off.

the FBI found in Unabomber suspect Theo Kaczynski's shack.

NPR's Ted Clark looks at the history of the armistice in Korea, and why 43 years ago North and South Korea would not agree to peace. In 1953, the South Koreans objected to peace, but today it is the North that is balking.

There was a summit in Washington this week to discuss the politics of meaning, a new political movement offering progressives/liberals a way to 'reclaim' the family values issue which has been monopolized by the right. They held a Summit on Ethics and Meaning and proposed a "Covenant with American Families", their answer to the Christian Coalition's Contract with American Families. Lynn Neary reports.

Commentator Alan Cheuse reviews a new novel called The Gospel of Corax, a fictional work that attempts to tell the story of Jesus that is not told in the Biblical Gospels. (The book is published by Soho

An audio diary recorded by a teenager growing up in Queens, New York as she tries to convince her parents that her relationship with another girl is not just a stage. Producer Joe Richman's Teenage Diaries series will continue the first Monday of every month beginning in June.

Psychiatrist JAMES GILLIGAN. He's spent twenty-five years treating violent men, as former medical director of the Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane, and director of mental health for the Massachusetts prison system. In his new book "Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes" (Grosset/Putnam) GILLIGAN puts forth his views on violence: that it is possible to eliminate most of the violence that plagues us, and that violence in America is "the result of our collective 'moral choice' to maintain the social policies" that contribute to violence. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

NPR's Richard Harris reports that dinosaur bone hunter Paul Sereno today unveiled his latest finds, including the skeleton of a huge meat-eating dinosaur that once roamed what is now Africa. Sereno and his colleagues unearthed the remains while hunting for dinosaur bones in the Sahara. The creature is giving scientists a better picture of dinosaur evolution.

Commentator David Crystal examines the use of "baby-talk" in the English language.