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- As the military downsizes and defense spending decreases, many defense contractors are looking for ways to use their technology for non-military uses. NPR's Richard Harris visits one company that is applying its research to resolve a religious issue.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the ontinuation of talks over the future of the Palestinian West Bank town of ebron. Israeli troops have yet to pull out of the town as promised, and each ide is blaming the other for the impasse in the negotiations.

Liane Hansen speaks with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of the band hish (FISH) about their new album "Billy Breathes" (Elektra 61971-2) and the reative exercises that the band says keeps their music fresh. Phish is merica's best-selling band without extensive airplay.

Robert talks to NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Gisenyi, Rwanda, about the mass return of refugees from the nearby town of Goma, Zaire. Relief agencies are scrambling to handle the unexpected crush of roughly half a million people who returned over the past four days. As the throngs have headed home, families have been separated, and relief agencies are caring for a few thousand children who can't find their parents. Meanwhile, returnees face the situation of returning home to find their houses occupied by squatters.

for a rendezvous with the Hubble telescope. During the mission the astronauts will upgrade equipment on the telescope.

President Clinton made a rare trip to Capitol Hill today to begin the budget negotiation process. He and congressional leaders came out of a meeting saying they had agreed to try to balance the budget by 2002. They also agreed to work on improving education, cutting taxes, and other items, although they still need to resolve their disparate approaches. NPR's Brian Naylor has a report.

Commentator Fawn Fitzgibbon has been a home hospice nurse for 7 years. In that time she has learned that death comes relentlessly. Cutting a life short by suicide is to surrender, she says. To live each moment, despite the limits that an illness brings, is more than to shake a fist at death; it gives meaning to the life itself, she says.

CIA director John Deutch was at a town meeting in South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles yesterday. He was answering allegations that the agency introduced the crack cocaine trade there in the early 1980s. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on how that meeting went.

Wade Goodwyn reports on the discovery of the ship once belonging to explorer Rene Robert Cavalier, Suer de la Salle.

editor-in-chief of >Entrepreneur magazine, about hot business trends for 1997. She says, if you've been thinking of starting your own business, or if you're already your own boss, you might consider scenting your store with a citrus fragrance and stocking up on rollerblades and gardening tools.

The city of Hong Kong will cease being a British colony exactly six months from today, and local opinions about the changeover are running high. NPR's Mary Kay Magistad talks with four Hong Kong residents about their apprehensions and expectations as the handover date nears.

to the federal judiciary with Professor Sheldon Goldman of the University of Massachusetts. Already, about one-fourth of all federal judges are Clinton appointees... and by the end of his second term, President Clinton will have appointed about one half of all federal district and appeals court judges.