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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including Senator Bob Packwood's (R-OR) resignation on the floor of he U.S. Senate; former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman pleads the 5th; white eparatist Randall Weaver testifies at Senate subcommittee investigation of the 992 Ruby Ridge, Idaho shootout with federal agents; BBC reporter John cIntyre's account of tear gas used against anti-nuclear protesters in Tahiti; aseball great Joe DiMaggio on Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken; Ripken omments on his appearance in 2,131 consecutive games.

HELEN PREJEAN (pray-ZSAHN). Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun. Her book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" (Random House, 1993) details her experience working with death row inmates in Louisiana. It's been made into a new film, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Prejean has come to believe that the death penalty is not only ineffective as a deterrent, but that the government can't be trusted to decide who should live and who should die. (REBROADCAST from 7

2: Writer JOE KANE talks about his book "Savages." (Knopf 1995) It's his first-hand account on the confrontations between Amazonian warriors and multi-national oil companies, environmentalists and missionaries. Kane writes about the Huoarani (Wow-rahn-nee) tribe's fight for its culture and environment. Kane's earlier book "Running the Amazon" was a 1989 New York Times best-seller. (re-broadcast from 11

Deaths among nursing homes residents accounted for more than a sixth of total COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

SIMPLE.Robert talks with Tom Oschenslager,(OSH-EN-SLANHG-ER), is a tax partner the accounting firm Grant Thornton in Washington DC. He spoke to us from his office. 3. LIGHT & LAG. Noah talks with Dr. Charles Czeisler (SIZE-ler), Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and senior author of a new study on human response to light. The study, published today in the journal Nature, shows that normal levels of indoor light, not just bright light, can reset the human biological clock. Czeisler says that, thanks to Edison, our bodies are in a permanent state of jet lag.

Robert talks with Binjamin Wilkomirski about the Holocaust. Wilkomirski's book, Fragments, is an account of his childhood experiences. The book has been translated into nine languages and has been published in eleven countries. As a very young child, Wilkomirski was taken to a Nazi concentration camp. He lived in barracks with other children. The language that he learned was a combination of the many languages to which he was exposed. He had no native tongue. He has no recollection of his mother... only of a woman he was brought to one day at the camp and was told was his mother. Wilkomirski tells Robert about the effect all of these experiences have had on his life, and his outlook on the world.

Online hate the Duchess has faced was part of a targeted and coordinated campaign originating from just 83 Twitter accounts.

Two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest people who follow the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet advocated by Dr. Robert Atkins can indeed lose more weight than those on conventional low-fat diets. But some researchers say the results do not account for the long-term health effects of a high-fat diet. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

The modern Bible is the product of translations and interpretations that span centuries. But a true understanding of its meaning should take into account its origins in Jewish culture, according to biblical scholar Marc Zvi Brettler, author of How to Read the Bible.

Sandy Tolan talks about his book The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East. The account grew out of a 1998 NPR documentary in which Tolan reported on a friendship between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman that served as an example of the region's fragile history.

Margaret Sartor offers an account of growing up in 1970s Louisiana in Miss American Pie, a memoir of adolescence told through diary entries written during Sartor's girlhood.

In Houston, federal prosecutors and former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay continue to spar on the final day of Lay's testimony. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Houston accused Lay of ignoring concerns about the company's accounting. He also pressed Lay for details on $70 million he made selling his own Enron stock.