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NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that in the United States, the USDA is instituting a new system aimed at increasing the safety of meat and poultry. Currently, inspectors rely on literally touching, smelling and looking at meat to determine whether it has been contaminated. Under the new system, scientific tests would be used to detect E-Coli and other microbes, and meat processors would be required to identify ways meat could become tainted, and take steps to prevent it from happening.

and found him as defiant as ever about the role he wants to play at the Republican convention next month.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that there exist three potential hot spots in the world that, if they erupted, could hamper President Clinton's re-election bid--Israel, Russia and Bosnia.

While the Democrats have charged repeatedly that Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole is in the back pocket of tobacco interests, both parties have benefitted from camapign contributions from the tobacco industry. Democrats are getting less money than they used to, but they still get a lot. And the Clinton Administration, while it has tried to limit smoking domestically, has not done so when it comes to tobacco exports. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on MSNBC -- the new 24-hour cable news channel that offers CNN its first-ever direct competition. Despite 16-years of bad press, low ratings and slow profits, CNN is thriving in its niche market -- upscale, middle-aged, news junkies. MSNBC hopes to lure chunks of that audience away with round-the-clock timeliness and 24-hour linkage to an expansive internet website. The other networks will be watching closely to see how much slicing the 24-hour news market can bear.

2: The artist who moved studio glass from craft to fine art, DALE CHIHULY. The world premier showing of translucent sculpture from his "Finland Suite" is currently at Jack Lenor Larsen's Long House Foundation in East Hampton, New York. This fall, his exhibit "Chihuly Over Venice" will be featured at the international Contemporary Art Glass exhibition. CHIHULY is among the best known American artists working today and is one of only four Americans to be given a one-man show at the Louvre.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on two federal HMO programs for the elderly. People who join get not just medical care - they also receive social supports like home nursing aides -- but members are limited to the health care providers in the HMOs. The goal is to keep people as healthy as possible as long as possible while holding down costs. So far, at least, there are few complaints about the programs.

The Supreme Court heard arguments today on part of the new anti-terrorism law. A Georgia death row inmate is challenging the law's new limits on appeals based on alleged violations of prisoners' constitutional rights, so-called "habeas corpus" petitions. Supporters of the law say prisoners have been abusing the system to delay executions. Critics of the law say reducing the opportunity for appeal increases the risk of executing innocent people. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's arguments before the justices.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Jerry Horton, the superintendent for the North Pontotoc [PAWN-uh-tawk] School District in Ecru, Mississippi. He pledges to keep some religion in the area's public schools, despite a federal court ruling against the district's practice of broadcasting prayers and Bible classes over the intercom system.

Singer/songwriter ELVIS COSTELLO. Previously with the band The Attractions, he later went solo. Since then he has performed and recorded with The Brodsky Quartet and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell. He's written about 300 songs. His new release is "All This Useless Beauty" (Warner Bros) which he recorded with The Attractions. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

President Clinton has chosen a new chief of Naval Operations to replace Admiral Mike Boorda, who committed suicide last month. The president is nominating Admiral Jay Johnson, who has been the Navy's number-two officer for the past few months. NPR's Martha Raddatz has more on Johnson's career.