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The Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum is still feeling he repercussions of a decision to scale back an exhibit featuring the "Enola ay", which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. NPR Senior News Analyst aniel Schorr has uncovered another controversy involving a Smithsonian exhibit; his one deals with the air war in Vietnam.

2: Biographer DEIRDRE BAIR (pronounced "Bear") has written acclaimed biographies of Samuel Beckett (which won the 1981 National Book Award) and Simone de Beauvoir (listed as one of the top ten books of 1990 by The New York Times). BAIR's newest subject is writer and diarist Anais Nin. A reviewer in the Kirkus Reviews writes, "Bair's Nin emerges as the complex woman she was, a woman who inspired both wrath and passion in those whose paths crossed hers." Anais Nin: A Biography (published by G.P. Putnam).

inguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG has a review.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MAURIZIO GALLI, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GONDOLIERS ASSOCIATION AND A GONDOLIER OF PIAZZA SAN MARCO IN VENICE, ITALY, ABOUT THE NEW REQUIREMENT THAT GONDOLIERS WILL NOW NEED TO ATTEND A "DRIVING SCHOOL."

Essayist and attorney Nora Raum says our focus on tort reform egarding excessive damage awards may be overstated. The number of huge payments s actually quite small.

Mark Roberts reports on the lack of affordable ousing in the plush resort town of Vail, Colorado. Housing costs have forced orking people and long-time residents to move out, making the town an enclave or the rich.

NPR'S PHILLIP DAVIS REPORTS ON EFFORTS BY HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO AMEND FEDERAL REGULATIONS TO GIVE NEW RIGHTS TO PROPERTY OWNERS AT THE EXPENSE OF IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS.

FROM LONDON, NPR'S ANDY BOWERS REPORTS THAT LAST NIGHT'S RULING BY THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT STAYED THE SCHEDULED EXECUTION OF CONVICTED MURDERER AND RAPIST CLARENCE LACKEY IS SUPPORTED BY THE BRITISH BAR WHICH, THIS WEEK, FILED A FRIEND OF THE COURT BRIEF ON HIS BEHALF.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Priest," the new movie that has been condemned by many in the religious community.

MICHAEL JORDAN MAY BE COMING BACK TO PLAY BASKETBALL! SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS.

Jyll Johnstone and Barbara Ettinger have explored the way they each were raised by nanny's in the 1950's in a new documentary called "Martha and Ethyl." Johnstone's nanny was a rigid disciplinarian, Ettinger had the opposite with a woman named Ethyl who she now look upon as a second mother.

Jacki Lyden talks to Geraldine Brooks, former Wall Street Journal corresspondant who has written a book on women and Islam. The book, "Nine parts of Desire" details some of Brooks more unusual experiences in the Middle East including a visit with the late Ayatollah Khomeni's family. Brooks says that there are many advantages in being a woman in that part of the world. The book is published by Doubleday.