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Robert talks with Lionel Barber of The Financial Times about the European Unions decision to ban British beef. Barber says this decision to ban a product is not UNprecedented, in fact there have been other bans imposed by the E-U in recent years.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the reaction to the life sentence given to Yigal Amir, the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last November. Most people welcomed the sentence, though they have yet to come to terms with the traumatic events surrounding the assassination.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the fighting in Lebanon and the prospects for diplomacy in solving the confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister says he will continue the shelling until Hezbollah stops its attacks, and other countries seem to be taking a wait-and-see attitude.

is trying to reach internationally competitive levels again. At 40, Smith has learned that patience is as important as a commitment to training.

ISRAEL - NPR'S Linda Gradstein reports that Israel is in no rush to stop its bombardment of Southern Lebanon, since it seems to be having an effect on Hezbollah's ability to fire katyushas into Israel. The diplomatic initiative seems to be on hold, as the US and Israel await a Syrian response to the US proposal. 2. A LEBANESE CAMP - NPR's Sunni Khalid reports from a UN-controlled refugee camp in Tyre, Lebanon. Whatever may be happening on diplomatic circles, refugees on the ground see no end to the disruption of their lives.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater's dog Jacques poses with the skill of a professional model for a magazine photographer.

Professor of Government and Foreign Relations at the University of Virginia, about U-S prospects for finding a diplomatic solution to the military conflict between Israel and Hezbollah militias in southern Lebanon. To do so, the U.S. would need help from Hezbollah's two main supporters, Syria and Iran, as well as cooperation from Israel.

war crimes tribunal to deal with human rights abuses. It would replace the present ad-hoc system.

Linda talks to Dula James - the country representative for Catholic Relief Services. She is in Monrovia describing the experience from her apartment-- which she hasn't been able to leave for five days. She can hear the rebels outside her apartment. As Linda speaks to her the sound of gunfire can be heard and she eventually has to end the conversation because she is crouching in her apartment in fear.

It's the money that the federal govt. coughs up when it takes tax paying local land off the tax rolls. This money usually goes to local schools, but Washington is late with it's payment this year and some in Congress want to reduce it dramatically anyway. Madeline Brand of member station W-B-G-O reports.

Commentator David Crystal has discovered first hand that in other cultures safe topics of conversation vary greatly.

Charles Scanlon reports that early results from South Korea's parliamentary elections suggest a stronger-than-expected showing for the ruling party. However, it may still lose its majority in the National Assembly, with voters angry at what they perceive as an authoritarian style of government.

in Dade County, Florida. Authorities blame the glut largely on immigration. Most of the 300 public schools in the system are operating at or above full capacity. Makeshift classrooms in trailers accommodate some of the overflow, but there still is a shortage of teachers and educational materials. Both faculty members and students are frustrated and say the quality of education is suffering.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today on whether people can file claims in state courts against medical device manufacturers when the devices are subject to federal regulation. The case in question involves a malfunctioning heart pacemaker. NPR's Nina Totenberg has the story.

- On May 11th, 1946 - 50 years ago today - the first CARE packages were distributed in (Le Havre) France. Daniel talks with three early CARE package recipients. They are Charles and Mathilde (mah-TILD) Middleberg, French Jews who later moved to the United States, and Klaus Putter (POO-ter) who was a teenage German soldier during the war. Early on, CARE packages consisted of surplus U.S. army rations. Then CARE put together boxed containing such items as flour, coffee, meat, and peanut butter.

NPR'S Ted Clark reports that U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher is meeting serious obstacles in his quest for a ceasefire in Lebanon. Today, Syrian President Hafez Assad even declined to meet with Christopher in Damascus.

- Daniel speaks with NPR's Martha Raddatz, who's in Sarajevo, about the flare up of tensions over the last day between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims. In one instance, NATO had to move into a neighborhood to ensure there would be no further violence.

This week we are airing a series of commentaries on the issue of "English only." Today we hear from Judy Chu, a councilwoman for the city of Monterey Park, California. She believes advocates of English-only divide communities and see immigrants as easy scapegoats rather than looking closely at all the ways to bring immigrants and others into the mainstream of American society.

- It's Mother's Day so Danny decides to visit a maternity ward and chat with a few women and their partners who have just had their babies or are about to deliver.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that scientists have for the first time deciphered the entire genetic code for an organism that has cells like humans. An international collaboration has sequenced the entire 16-chromosome genome of baker's yeast, which, like humans, have "eukaryotic cells." Researchers believe the achievement will help give scientists an extremely useful tool for learning more fundamental biological functions.

- Daniel speaks with Bernard Loeb, Director of the Office of Aviation Safety at the National Transportation Safety Board, about the investigation into the crash yesterday of a Valujet flight near Miami. Loeb, who's in Florida working on the investigation, says the plane and the 109 people on board lie underneath a murky and muddy swath of swamp in the Everglades. The search for survivors has been called off. And the NTSB is trying to figure out how to tackle the difficult logistics of getting to the plane to remove the bodies. One scenario involves draining the swamp at the crash site.

The residents of Fort Smith, Arkansas and neighboring towns are cleaning up as best they can after a devastating swarm of tornadoes destroyed buildings and left four people dead. Linda talks to Mike Morton of the Fort Smith Public Library about how the residents are coping with the disaster.

phone lines make using the Web more enjoyable because they dramatically increase the speed at which graphics and other information appear on your screen. But ISDN lines remain very expensive and, while costs are coming down in some parts of the country, it's not fast enough to satisfy most computer users.

>The Song of the Dodo . The book deals with evolution and extinction on islands... and not just islands you find in the middle of water, but islands in the ecological sense... that is, any patch of habitat surrounded by an inhospitable area. Quammen is probably best known for his columns that ran for 15 years in Outside magazine.

Congressional investigators say the Energy Department has overstated the business for U-S firms that was generated by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's trade missions overseas. Her critics in Congress have criticized the cost of the trips but O'Leary says they created a net gain in exports. NPR's John Nielsen has a report on a hearing today about the claims.