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Linda talks with Karen Donelan, a senior research associate at the Harvard School of Public Health, and the lead author of a survey published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, called "Whatever Happened to the Health Insurance Crisis in the United States? Voices From a National Survey." Donelon's survey found that one in four American adults had difficulty acquiring medical care in the last year.

Researchers have greated the most detailed map yet of where genes are located on the 23 pairs of human chromosomes. Approximately 20% of the 100,000 genes in humans are now located on the map, and this should help other researchers figure out how these genes affect human health. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Bob Dole's latest move to try to capture voters shows Dole's desperation as the campaign comes to a close.

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Daniel talks with Adeed Daweesha, professor of Middle East Politics and History at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia. Daweesha says he believes the United States is not REALLY interested in getting rid of Saddam Hussein rather of keeping him at bay. Daweesha says there are compelling reasons why the U.S. and others would rather have Hussein in power than out.

Researchers have detected a virus believed to cause Kaposi's sarcoma in the saliva of gay men. Kaposi's sarcoma is a form of cancer that usually only occurs in people with weakened immune systems, such as people with AIDS. Recently, researchers have found evidence that the cancer is caused by a type of herpes virus. In the new research, scientists detected the virus in the saliva of six of seven HIV-positive gay men with a current or previous history of Kaposi's sarcoma. NPR's Joe Neel reports.

marks the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the Scandinavian Airline Service. Scott speaks with American World War Two pilot Captain Byron Cramblet who commandeered that first flight.

NPR's Silvia Poggolli and Tom Gjelton report on today's elections in the former Yugoslavia.

The votes are being counted from the country's Bosnia's first elections which took place peacefully on Saturday.

Daniel talks with columnist and author Art Buchwald about his new book, "I'll Always Have Paris." Buchwald says it was an extraordinary time period (1940s, 50s, early 60s) when many writers lived there--and he and he was in the center of everything as the food and social critic for the Herald Tribune.

to three Gulf Arab states to secure support for continued military and economic pressures against Iraq.

Researchers have long been curious about how human memory works. In recent years, scientists have begun using new brain imaging technologies and other techniques to gain new insights into how the brain stores memories, and how those memories are later retrieved. In part of a special series on the brain, Michelle Trudeau explores the latest scientific understanding of how the brain processes memory.