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NPR's Joe Palca reports that for the first time scientists have identified a gene that is involved in a particular kind of thinking. In tomorrow's issue of the journal Cell, researchers report that they identified a gene that appears to play a role in the ability to envision things in three dimensions.

ock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews two books on punk rock. "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History ofPunk," by Legs McNeil and Gilian McCain. Also "Go Now," by Richard Hell.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says the guilt of finding good child care can get intolerable...she thinks of all the high level execs that have left their jobs to spend more time with their families---they aren't satisfied with having anyone else but themselves take care of their kids.

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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Jeff Adams, a novelist and d Frascino cartoonist for New Yorker magazine about their book, "archyology:the ong lost tales of archy and mehitabel." (University Press of New England). The ook is a collection of lost works of Don Marquis, creator of Archy the ockroach and his sidekick Mehitabel.

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NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) reports that progress continues to be slow towards developing a vaccine for AIDS. Experts from developing countries say one of the reasons is that the developed world has diverted too much of its resources to researching treatments. There's also disagreement over when and whether to test vaccines that appear to only be partially effective.

Our POSTPONED interview with journalist CHRIS HEDGES. He's been covering the Bosnian conflict for the New York Times and offers insight to the current political and social atmosphere in the former yugoslavia. This week marks the anniversary of the slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica as they were attempting to retreat from the Serbs. Investigators from the international war crimes tribunal are currently exhuming the graves of that former U.N. "safe area." (This interview continues into the second half of the show.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that state- sponsored terrorism was the talk of Washington yesterday, both on Capitol Hill and at the White House.

Reporter Alice Furlaud (FURR-loh) profiles poet Ellen Hinsey, winner of the 1995 Yale Younger Poets Prize. It is a prize given to an American...under 40...who has never been published. Hinsey's book "Cities of Memory" has just been released, and poetry editors admire her unique approach. (7:45) (Stations: "Cities of Memory" is published by the Yale University Press,

- Daniel visits the Forensic Documents Lab at the U-S Immigration and Naturalization Service. Analysts in the lab use high tech equipment to study questionable immigration documents. They are specialists in detecting counterfeit techniques, including alterations impossible to detect with the naked eye. The Atlanta Committee on the Olympic Games asked the lab to design the Olympic visa which has numerous security features.

Noah has information on Hurricane Bertha, which has prompted an evacuation order along the nation's southeastern coast.