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NPR's Vicky Que reports on the rise of drug use, particularly marijuana, among teenagers and how researchers are still deciding on the best method for curtailing it. One problem may be that baby boomer parents haven't been as concerned about marijuana use by teenagers as experts think they should be. Marijuana is also much cheaper and more readily available today, which makes it difficult for law enforcement to control.

on some Canadian and European companies that continue to do business in Cuba despite a U.S. embargo. Undersecretary of Commerce Stuart Eisenstat is in Europe, trying to win support from governments there for the U.S. policy. The sanctions were imposed after Cuba shot down two U.S. civilian aircraft piloted by Cuban exiles, off the coast of Cuba in February.

to withdraw a political television ad. It uses an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King's, " >I Have a Dream" speech to argue against Proposition 2-0-9. Proposition 2-0-9 would abolish affirmative action programs in the state. Dr. King's family and estate say he supported affirmative action as a means of redressing past injustices.

Noah talks with Jack Burke, the railroad correspondent for Traffic World, the weekly magazine of the transportation industry, about the merger of the CSX and Conrail railway systems. The combined railroad system will not be the largest in the nation, but will approach the size of industry giants Union Pacific and Burlington Northern.

Journalist and musician JAMES MCBRIDE. His recent book, is "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to his White Mother" (Riverhead) about his mother who was white and Jewish, but refused to admit her race. MCBRIDE's father was black. For years, MCBRIDE knew nothing about his mother's early life. It wasn't until he started work on the book, that she opened up to tell him that her father was a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi in rural Virginia, a racist, and he sexually abused her. MCBRIDE has written for "The Washington Post," "The Boston Globe," and "People" magazine

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the rush to learn English among California's legal immigrants. Those who are receiving government assistance - especially the elderly - are trying to become citizens, before California cuts off welfare payments to all legal immigrants.

Scott speaks with Clinton campaign advisor Lynn Cutler about this weeks' Republican National Convention.

- N-P-R's Jennifer Ludden reports on the delayed efforts of Zaire to hold democratic elections. In 1990, President Mobutu Sese Seko (moh-boo-TOO say-SEE say-KOH) mandated that Zaire hold democratic elections in 1995. Elections were never held and, one year later, reform groups are calling on Mobutu to follow his 1990 mandate. In calling for elections, reformers are identifying Mobutu and his corrupt government as the primary reason for the delay in Zaire's transition to democracy. But Zaire's troubles are not limited to governmental corruption; logistical and organizational problems abound.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on yesterday's Reform Party onvention in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Perot was expected to win, and he did y a substantial margin.

Neal talks to John Haught, Professor of Theology at Georgetown University, about the Vatican's announcement this week that the Pope has recognized the Theory of Evolution.

The Republican Party spent the last four days talking about their vision for America and their view of the Clinton administration. Tonight, NPR's Brian Naylor sorts the fact from the fiction in their rhetoric.

Newspapers are being squeezed by the corporations that own them. Simon looks at the Philadelphia Inquirer, a newspaper which is struggling to maintain its high standards in a time of forced cutbacks.