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NPR's Nina Teicholz repotrs from Rio de Janeiro that Brazil's effort to end hyper-inflation has created other problems: increasing business bankruptcies, rising unemployment, and a serious loss of consumer buying power. Economists lay much of the blame on the so-called Real (r

Simon: Scott goes on a tour of Boston.

Simon: Scott reads letters from listeners.

Robert talks with Geoffrey Garin (GAIR-en), president of Garin-Hart-Yang Strategic Research, and Linda DiVall, president of American Viewpoint, about what voters think about the Whitewater investigation. Garin is a pollster for Democratic candidates and DiVall works for Republican candidates. DiVall believes that Whitewater has definitely had an effect on President Clinton's popularity, and that the nation's opinions about Hillary Clinton have negatively affected voters' perceptions of her husband.

Commentator Elissa Ely has moved into a new neighborhood and is trying to make sure when she takes her dog for a walk people know she is respectful of the santity of their manicured lawns. She always carries three of four jumbo paper towels to show her intent to "keep the neighborhood clean". She has already run into some conflict, though.

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Linda talks with senior citizens who live at the On Top Of The World retirement community in Clearwater, Florida. This is a community of mostly Republican seniors that has served as a stopover for political candidates. Florida has cast its votes for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976...but these seniors seem to have a lackluster support for presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the FBI files, which the Clinton Administration obtained, may develop into an explosive political issue.

Scott gets a driving lesson from Tom and Ray Magliozzi.

Linda Wertheimer interviews women from the Republican business community in Florida about their reactions to the latest controversies surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton. The women also talk about other political issues, and the things that compel them to vote.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the first indictment of Theodore Kaczynski as the person responsible for the Unabomber's mail-bombing attacks. A federal grand jury in Sacramento, California returned a ten-count indictment against Kaczynski, covering four separate bomb attacks that killed two people and injured two others.

Surgeons are increasingly finding ways to operate on fetuses while they are still in the womb. The operations can correct problems that in the past would have been fatal, or left the child with severe disabilities. But the operations raise many questions, including whether they are worth the cost and risk to the mother. Neil Tichner (TICK-nur) of member station WHYY in Philadelphia reports.