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Essayist Mike Renfro looks at the controversy sparked earlier this eek when a six-year-old boy kissed his classmate on her cheek

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The town of West Hartford, Connecticut, is running out of burial space. NPR's Margot Adler reports on a novel approach to the problem, which secures more burial space while providing the living with a new spot for their picnics.

Liane Hansen speaks with photographer Nubar Alexanian NEW-bar uh-lex-AY-nee-ahn), about his new book of photography "Where Music omes From," (Dewi Lewis Publishing), which is a celebration of music and hotography.

two years of ideological and budgetary attacks from Republicans in Congress, much to the dismay of conservatives.

about the implications for Moscow of last night's crash of its Mars probe into the Pacific ocean.

Noah talks with Nick Thorpe, a BBC reporter in Bucharest, Romania, about the surprising results of the recent Romanian elections. A former geology professor and a political novice, Emil Constantinescu, upset the incumbent president. Now, the president-elect must try to bring the former Soviet bloc country towards a market economy. Thorpe says the populace showed deep emotion in victory rallies - of the sort Thorpe has not witnessed there since the revolution of 1989.

that they plan to join forces to create by far the world's largest aircraft maker. The new company will emerge in mid-1997, if stockholders and government regulators approve of the merger.

Scott speaks with Peter Landau, co-author (with Shepherd Campbell) of "Presidential Lies: The Illustrated History of White House Golf." (Macmillan)

Scott speaks with Weekend Edition's sports commentator Ron Rapoport about the fight, last weekend, between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, and what it seems to have done to revive the sport of boxing.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says a film about the life f Anita Hill was shelved due to pressure from the production company's parent orporation over worries about objections from Supreme Court Justice Clarence homas. 2:50

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians will get under way Tuesday as forecast, but the talks will begin with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meeting separaely with President Clinton before any face-to-face meeting between the two Middle East leaders can take place. Even as the meetings in Washington were being prepared, however, US administration officials were lowering expectations that even the previously-agreed-to Oslo Accords could be reactivated.