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in - In Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where Jacki grew up, the Kiltie Drive-In has been a fixture for about 50 years. One of Jacki's classmates from high school now runs it... Jacki checks in with him and remembers the double hamburgers they used to order.

Michael talks with Judge Hiller Zobel - who sits on the Massachusetts Superior Court - about the history of jury trials. Zobel says that even though juries have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent high profile trials, he believes a jury system is still the best available. And that any alternative that would grant more power to judges to decide cases would not be in the best interest of justice.

Daniel talks with the assistant city editor of the Chicago Tribune, Bill Rectenwald, about the heat wave in Chicago and the recent deaths there. Rectenwald says the temperatures are in the triple digits and police are mobilizing to insure the sick and elderly survive and to avoid the large number of deaths that occured earlier this month. Rectenwald says though such intense heat is not unusual in other states, Chicagoans are unaccustomed to such extreme temperatures.

Yesterday President Clinton issued an executive order that established the first uniform standards for U.S. agencies in granting security clearances to employees. Among the directives was an order to end the denial of security clearances because an applicant is gay. Daniel talks to Frank Kameny, who was denied government security clearances in the 1950s and 60s and was the first person to fight a discharge from a federal civil service job because of his homosexuality.

Michael speaks with NPR's Cheryl Devall, who's covering the annual meeting of the NAACP. It's the organization's first meeting under the leadership of its new president, Myrlie Evers-Williams.

Last week we asked listeners to call in with words they or their family members have made up. And, are so wonderful, they should be added to the dictionary. Here are the highlights...

NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that if you survey the wake drawn this week by Hurricane Opal, you'd find that the barrier islands off the northwest coast of Florida were especially hard hit. Residents who'd fled the area returned today for a temporary visit...that's all the authorities would allow them... to see what the storm had done to their homes and businesses.

Okay. OJ is over. And that got critic Bob Mondello musing about how Hollywood has treated with the subject of juries in film.

The Pope was in New York today. We hear a bit of tape from his mass this morning in Central Park, and then Daniel talks with two students and a professor at Catholic University about their feelings concerning the significance and relevance of the Pope and his visit to America

While on assignment in Los Angeles, Daniel attempts to drive around the city with the aid of a computer called a "Global Positioning System" or G-P-S. The computer is mounted on the dashboard and is programmed to guide you thru a city to a specific destination. Daniel also talks with an Automotive Technologies manager at Rockwell International, the company that sells the G-P-S to companies.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports from New York on an effort to help poor, battered women divorce their abusive husbands.

Daniel talks with Lonny Shavelson, author of "A Chosen Death," (Simon and Schuster) about the rights of the handicapped to chose assisted suicide. In his book, Shavelson tells the story of one very intelligent, life-affirming man who was completely incapacitated as the result of an accident as a young boy. And though this man enjoyed life in spite of his confinement to a wheel chair and his inability to speak, the physical and emotional limitations became too great a burden and he ultimately chose to fast to death.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission met this week to examine race and sex discrimination in the nation's police forces.

NPR's Jacki Lyden reports on the support Muslim countries are showing for the Bosnian government. Iran and other Islamic countries say that they will ignore the United Nations embargo of arms to Bosnia, with the support of the 52 member nations of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Steve Inskeep of member station WBGO reports on the world chess championship being played atop the World Trade Center in New York City. The games feature long-time champion Garry Kasparov (kah-SPAHR-off) of Russia and Viswanathan Anand (VEESH-wanuh-thun uh-NAHnd) of India.

Daniel talks to Dan Lungren, attorney general of the state of California, about a new telephone initiative his office has put into place. The MOLESTOR HOTLINE is a number citizens can call to see if someone they want to employ who will come into contact with children is listed in a data bank of convicted child molestors. The hotline has only been up and running for a month but so far, the attorney general's office reports, nearly 9 percent of the callers have found a match for their inquiry.

Daniel talks to Dr. Mark Hlatky of Stanford University. Hlatky conducted a study with colleagues at Duke university looking at the effects of job stress on heart disease. They found that job stress does not cause measurable increases in heart disease.

Daniel talks to Richard Pollay, professor of marketing at the University of British Columbia, about a series of tobacco company documents that detail their research about the most effective way to sell cigarettes to young teenagers in Canada.

Daniel talks to three professors at Howard University... Janet Dates, Leroy Wells, and Richard Wright... about issues of race and how blacks and whites see cultural institutions differently.

Daniel talks with Phillip Jenkins Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University about the history of militia movements in the United States. Jenkins says that in the 1940's in particular, there were several right-wing militias run by Christian leaders. They believed the federal government was subverting the constitution and many of them followed a popular radio talk show host who was also a priest preaching anti-semitic and racist views.

Vicki Que reports on some of the issues that will be discussed at the international conference on women, which begin this coming week in Beijing.

Organizers of an international womens forum near Beijing today called an emergency meeting with Chinese officials. They demanded that Chinese security forces stop harassing delegates and preventing free access to forum sites. Organizers say if offiicals don't ease up on security by noon tomorrow the forum could be ended early. NPR's Mary Kay Magstead reports from the conference.

This past week, South Africa held another round of mixed-race elections...this time for local government. Daniel talks with journalist and author Allister Sparks about the task ahead for these new leaders...and about a potentially explosive case currently unfolding in South Africa. This past week, the former South African defense minister was charged in the murder of 13 people at a prayer meeting in 1987. But Sparks says the massacre was just one event in a series of violent events now believed to have been provoked by a 'hit squad' organized by the former defense minister.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed today at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Daniel talks with NPR's Linda Gradstein, who is in Jeruselem, about what happened.

Jacki speaks with Don Wetzel, inventor of the Automatic Teller Machine about his invention. This week the Smithsonian Institution added an ATM machine to it's collection of 20th century artifacts. Wetzel says that last year alone, more than 8-billion transactions were conducted using ATM's.