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RUDOLPH VALENTINO WAS BORN 100 YEARS AGO TODAY AND HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH FILM HISTORIAN WILLIAM EVERSON ABOUT VALENTINO'S SHORT LIVED FILM CAREER.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the debate at Brown University over school funding for women's sports. Under a federal law called Title IX, schools are required to offer men and women the same opportunities as far as athletics are concerned. But, critics of Title IX say the law is damaging to sports programs for men.

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Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes last week's winner and challenges ur listeners with a new puzzle. 7:47 This week's on-air player lives in San Francisco, California and listens to

Journalist LAURIE GARRETT has recently returned from Zaire, where many people have died due to the spread of the Ebola virus. She is the author of the new book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). It explores the emergence of new infectious viruses like AIDS and Ebola, and the new strains of known diseases that are resistant to many treatments. She has been a science reporter for NPR, New York Newsday, Omni, and other publications.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

NPR's Philip Davis reports that beginning this year, 27 states and the District of Columbia have been required, under the Federal Clean Air Act, to begin tougher automobile emissions testing. The rules would require motorists to have their cars tested at centralized test sites, as opposed to the local gas station, where much of the testing is now done. Most of the states involved are upset with the requirement, arguing they don't want to spend the money to build new tests sites. And motorists are angry, because of added inconvenience.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on a proposal being considered by President Bill Clinton which would force government employees with access to classified information to submit their financial records for inspection. The measure is an effort to catch people such as Aldridge Ames who flaunted large sums of money while working for the CIA. Ames was a Russian spy who was being paid handsomely for the information he was passing on to Moscow.

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2: Terry Gross talks with Croatian writer DUBRAVKA (doo-BRAV-kah) UGRESIC (ooh-GREH-sich) about her book Have a Nice Day: From the Balkan War to the American Dream. Part memoir, part short story collection, the book chronicles the writer's transplanted life as a lecturer in Middletown, Connecticut, a world away from the brutal Balkan war. Using the form of a personal "dictionary," URGESIC pieces together a world and identity from fragmentary headings like "Couch Potato", "Refugee", and "Harassment."REV 1: Rock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews John Prine's new CD "Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings" (Ohboy Records).

SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including the late folksinger/actor Burl Ives; Senator Bob Dole (R.-KS) nnouncing his bid for the Republican nomination for President; Representative obert Dornan (R.-CA) announcing his bid for the presidency; President Bill linton in his weekly radio address; and former U-S Secretary of Defense Robert cNamara admitting that U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was wrong.