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Jackie Kennedy Onnasis' estate has been drawing top dollars all week long at Sotheby's auction house. Noah Adams talks with Michael Marsden, dean of the College of Arts and Science at Northern Michigan University in Marquette who has written about popular culture, about this estate sale. Marsden says he's not surprised by the amount of money people have paid for Jackie O's belongings being auctioned. Rather, Marsden says, people attach a kind of profound value to memorabilia that can be very high. He says this dates back to the Middle Ages when people begin to collect the relics of saints.

Noah talks with Allyson Atchley, a staff member of the 69th annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. Atchley helps bee participants when they misspell a word. Students have the option of retreating to a "comfort room" where they are offered cookies and punch and a dictionary to look up the word they misspelled. Atchley chats with them and tries to make them feel better if they are upset.

NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr discusses the prospects for the Middle East peace process with Richard Haass, formerly with the National Security Council, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and with Samuel Lewis, former Ambassador to Israel, currently at the Institute for Near East Policy.

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This time of year, the population of High Point, North Carolina doubles, as more than 70-thousand furniture industry executives descend on the city from all over the world. Adam Hochberg explored the seventy square acres of furniture in High Point this week and filed this report.

1:Host of ABC'S "Nightline" TED KOPPEL. He has a new memoir about his 16 years with the news show and his life before journalism. It's called "Nightline: History in the Making and the Making of Television" (Times Books, by Ted Koppel and Kyle Gibson). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

President Clinton had a news conference with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Milwaukee today, but reporters mainly wanted to ask about domestic issues. Specifically, they took Mr. Clinton through a list of issues on which Republicans say he has switched sides to win votes. NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the president's vehement denials that he has flip-flopped on welfare, the gas tax, gay marriages and Cuba policy.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that the South Bronx has one of the country's highest asthma rates: estimated as high as 8 times the national average. At some public schools, the problem is especially acute; one principal at a school near an incinerator says that half of her students suffer from asthma. Many of these schools are close to the industrial plants that some have accused of exacerbating asthma. But heavy industry is encouraged in this region, and company officials say there's no proof they're part of the problem.

Scott speaks with Professor Brian Gardiner, a paleontolgist at King's College, London. Prof. Gardiner says he knows who perpetrated the hoax of 1912, the Piltdown Man, thought to have been the "Missing Link."

Commentator Alan Cheuse reviews a new political novel called Sounding the Waters by James Glickman. It's the story of a midwestern veteran politician who runs for the Senate, and the book is complete with descriptions of all the dirty tricks that occur during a hotly contested political race. (Glickman's book is published by Crown, this year.)

NPR's Eric Weiner reports that unofficial results of the Israeli elections show Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu as the winner. Official results will be announced next week, but it now appears certain that Labor leader Shimon Peres has lost his bid to remain Prime Minister and pursue his plan for peace with Arab states.