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Robert talks with NPR's Michael Skoler about the condition of refugees in a camp he visited today south of Kisangani. Thousands of Rwandan refugees have been returning to camps after they were driven out last week by local Zaireans and rebel troops.

Robert talks with Jon Miller in Lima, Peru, about the latest developments in the hostage situation at the residence of the Japanese ambassador. Negotiations are underway with leftist rebels who are holding as many as 490 captives, including senior Peruvian officials and numerous foreign diplomats. The guerrillas are demanding the release of imprisoned comrades, a ransom, and safe passage to Peru's jungles.

and tobacco use is on the rise among eighth and tenth-graders.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports that the Oakland, California school district has declared "Ebonics" or black English to be a second language as a way of addressing the low performance of some black students. The school district says the move is intended to help black students the same way that English as a second language programs help new immigrants. But opponents of the idea say calling black English a distinct language simply validates bad grammar and won't help black students succeed.

of Carl Sagan. He spoke with NPR's Ira Flatow earlier this year.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Moscow on fears that old Soviet habits are creeping back into Russia. Human Rights groups cite as example the case of Alexander Nikitin (neh-KEE-tuhn). Nikitin wrote a report on nuclear waste contamination by the Russian Navy. He was arrested and charged with espionage and high treason.

NPR's Barbara Mantel has the first in a series of reports on student teacher Lea Ricci (LEE-uh RICH-ee), a student teacher at Fordham College who begins her first week of student teaching at Emerson High School in Yonkers, New York. Ricci will be paired with an experienced teacher at Emerson, and she says she's looking forward to learning from a teacher who's already worked with kids. But she's also hoping to try out some of her ideas about getting the kids involved in exciting, hands-on teaching methods, and wonders whether the reality of the classroom will accommodate her ideas about teaching.

or the V-chip due to be put into all new televisions.

about the unexplained events nearly four years ago in the Australian outback. Was the huge explosion, felt hundreds of miles away, a small earthquake, a meteorite crashing or worst of all, a nuclear blast?

has stirred up a row within the governing Conservative Party on European monetary union by suggesting that unless Britain joins the single European currency, it won't invest any money in new plants.

NPR'S Eric Westervelt reports on Atlantic City, whose residents voted to legalize gambling twenty years ago today. Touted at the time as an economic savior for the troubled New Jersey city...many of the promises have not held true...as Atlantic City is now undergoing a second wave of casino development.

2: Recently the Food and Drug Administration conditionally approved the sale of RU486, the French abortion pill, in the United States. The drug won't be available widely until mid next year. DR. ELIZABETH NEWHALL (pronounced "NEW-HALL") works in a clinic in Portland, Oregon, where they have been testing the drug with their patients.