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NPR's Mike Shuster reports on one of the crucial questions for the future of Bosnia--whether former enemies can live next to one another again. The Dayton peace accords stopped the shooting war, but not the hatred among the Bosnians, Croats and Serbs. Shuster reports on a re-integration project where Muslims are trying to re-build homes in a town now occupied by Croats.

The BBC's Jane Standley reports from Goma, Zaire, on how that city has changed since Zairean rebels took it over last fall. Goma once was home to hundreds of thousands of Rwandan refugees. Today it is the de facto capital of rebel-held Zaire. People in the town generally welcome the rebels' presence. They are seen as less oppressive and corrupt than the Zairean government and its army.

Daniel talks with Harlan Hale, Assistant Director of Food and Logistics for the relief organization, CARE. Hale is in Kigali, Rwanda to help organize food distribution and other aid for returning refugees. The plan is to provide one months of food rations for those refugees and to establish work programs. To complicate matters, between 80-thousand and 100-thousand refugee homes are currently occupied by squaters who will need to be re-settled.

Singer Sheila Chandra is known for her explorations of pop music, which borrow heavily from her ancesteral roots in India and her home in London. Her latest CD is called A BONE CRONE DRONE and this time, the singer plays with musical drones as the backbone as she explores melody, harmony, and the links between Indian and Celtic music.

Commentator Bailey White tells how her home town there are lots of trendy little stores that out of towners think are the real country thing. She tells of one store in particular "WHITE CAT GIFTS"-- where the store mascot is a white cat... It is a fake really-- in fact this cat "Swooz"-- is one of any number of white cats the owner can grab from across the street at "Twitty's feed and seed".

Ten thousand sales representatives are traveling to Orlando this weekend to celebrate the 50th birthday of the bowl with the burp. At first the new looking pastel colored bowls and cups didn't sell... that is until the company launched the home party. Tupperware is now updating it's look and hoping to boost it's U.S. sales. Sally Watt of member station WUSF reports.

Robert talks to Louise Shelley, international organized crime expert and a professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University. Shelley says that pyramid schemes such as the one that sparked the rioting in Albania have happened in other former Eastern Bloc countries. She says that people who are not experienced with capitalism cannot recognize these scams as frauds. People have lost their life savings, their retirement money, and their homes.

Tanya Ott reports from Orlando that new visa restrictions are discouraging foreigners from buying vacation homes in the United States at the rate they have been. In southern states, these foreign homebuyers are no longer a multimillion dollar slice of the real estate market since the war on terrorism is limiting their visa stays to one month.

Commentator Frank Deford reflects on some of the ways that spectator sports have influenced the habits and attitudes of Americans. Televised games are not just a source of home entertainment and a topic of water cooler conversation. By clearly delineating winners and losers, they provide a model for an overly simplified worldview.

Scott Horsley of member station KPBS reports firefighters in rural San Diego County, California are beginning to make progress today against a wildfire that's scorched more than 10-thousand acres and destroyed a handful of backcountry homes. The fast-moving blaze temporarily closed two Indian casinos, and halted mail delivery in the area for the first time in more than a decade.