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NPR's Eric Weiner visits a funeral of two teenaged girls who died while shopping in downtown Tel Aviv yesterday. The suicide bomb attack left at least 14 dead. Today the Israeli government sealed family homes of seven suicide bombers and rejected a truce offer by the extremist organization Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The Clinton Administration has announced the first steps in a crackdown on smugglers who bring freon gas into the U.S. The gas is widely used in older car and home air conditioners and refrigerators, but it has been banned since 1994. Freon is thought to a primary culprit in the destruction of the earth's ozone layer. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

that Zaire is using white mercenaries to fight anti-government rebels. Zairean president Mobutu returned to France today after being home only three weeks.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports that Olympic officials have opened a state of the art drug testing lab to combat the illegal use of performance enhancing drugs. The goal of the high profile program is to discourage drug use, but already three atheletes have been sent home from failing thier drug tests.

NPR's Dean Olsher reports that the Russian government has decided to bring the Romanoff jewels... which were being exhibited at museums throughout the United States... home to Moscow early. The Russians say that they want the jewels returned so that they can be displayed at the 850th anniversary of the founding of Moscow... but the abruptness with which the tour was cancelled has left museum officials puzzled.

Commentator David Greenberger worked as an Activities Director at a nursing home twenty years ago. Now, every Valentine's Day, he's reminded of that experience. He discovered that the secret to getting older people to open up to talk about their lives was to ask questions about love and romance.

Much of western Minnesota is frozen in ice or under freezing water, with thousands of residents forced out of their homes and thousands more without power. Rivers throughout Minnesota and North Dakota are swollen from runoff from melting snow, and a cold snap has complicated the problems as the floodwaters have begun to freeze. Minnesota Public Radio's Mark Zdechlik reports.

of a new home drug testing kit. Actually, the testing itself is done at a laboratory. The kit is for collecting a urine specimen and sending it in. The idea is to allow parents to test their children for drugs and keep the results confidential.

Linda talks with Jack Warren, assistant editor of the Papers of George Washington project at the University of Virginia. Two letters written by George Washington have recently been acquired by a new museum at Washington's boyhood home. Warren thinks they show the more pedestrian, everyday side of the President, and tell us a lot about the role of the American media in the late 1700's.

From Sulaymaniyah, Northern Iraq, NPR's Michael Goldfarb talks with Linda about the desperation of Kurdish refugees routed from their homes in northern Iraq by a rival faction supported by Saddam Hussein. The refugees say they have been deserted by the United Nations and the United States that for the past five years had provided them protection and aid from Saddam Hussein's forces.