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As part of the series "Teenage Diaries," producer Joe Richman has been giving teenagers around the country tape recorders so they can document their lives. This month, Juan, a nineteen-year-old from an immigrant community just outside Laredo, Texas, tells about his life with ten brothers and sisters in a small trailer home, and the pressures of living as an illegal immigrant in a country that's making him feel more and more unwelcome.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports on what awaits the nearly two million Rwandan refugees who choose to go home from camps in Zaire and other countries. While many have been told they will be killed or jailed in revenge for the genocide of 1994, most are able to go back and resume their lives. But many do have problems--there have been killings, and thousands have been thrown in overcrowded jails, sometimes on the flimsiest of evidence.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that today is the deadline Tanzania had given Rwandan refugees to leave their camps and go home. Nearly all of the half-million Rwandans in Tanzania have done so. But relief officials estimate there are still at least two or three hundred thousand Rwandans stuck in a remote area of eastern Zaire, without access to sufficient food or medicine. These refugees apparently include many who perpetrated the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on some of the less-than-classic items for sale in the marketplaces of Jerusalem. Tourists can buy Jesus pens, Jesus key chains, even a glow-in-the-dark Jesus. Those who want to take a bit of Jerusalem home with them can buy a Holy Kit, complete with such items as olive oil supposedly taken from the Church of the Sepulchre.

The city of Baltimore received a $300 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to replace some of its most rundown and dangerous public housing developments. Many of the families who lived in one of these projects, Lexington Terrace, say that even though the buildings were a haven for drug dealers and posed serious hazards to their children, they'll still miss the place they called home. Amy Bernstein reports from Baltimore.

Both are within an hour's drive of each other, but their differences reflect the growing divisions in Israeli society. Jerusalem is the ancient holy city, home to many orthodox and nationalists...secular Tel Aviv is relatively new, and a bustling business center.

- Daniel talks with musician "Vinx." His real name is Vincent De Jean Parrette. He hails from Kansas City and at one time held the world record in the track and field event called the triple jump. He was also on the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that fell victim to a boycott. Music Vinx says though has always been his love from the time he was a young boy playing the bongos in the closet of his parents home.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on an aggressive new policing program in Boston. The program sends cops and local probation officers out at night together to look for offenders out past curfew. Unlike police, probation officers don't need a warrant to go into an offender's home. Officials say they're catching lots of violators this way, but critics charge it crosses the line and is a violation of privacy.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports on Ulitsa Sezam, the Russian Courtyard that's home to Zeliboba and his friends - Vlas and Yenick, and Aunt Dashe. If this sounds familiar, it is. The Russian version of Sesame Street premiered today, brought to you by the letter Bukva. There was concern before the show made it to Russian airwaves that it might be just another unwanted import of American culture, although it's too soon to tell what public reaction is to the show.

He maintains that he is NOT Japhy Ryder in Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums"...and that he is NOT a nature poet. But the Zen woodsman is a hero to the back-to-nature movement. He's also been criticized for being an out-of-touch environmental purist. On the other hand, his poetry has been praised and honored, including a 1975 Pulitzer. Catherine Stifter visited Snyder at his home in the Sierras.