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Jacki talks to Anthony DeCurtis, an editor at Rolling Stone magazine, about the album, "I Ain't Movin" by the singer Des'ree. (dez-ray) DeCurtis says that effectively combines the slick production of contemporary R+B artists and the tradition of social comment in some of the R+B musicians of the 60s and 70s.

We take a moment to solicit phone calls about what kind of music our listeners clean their house to. 1:00 Funding Credit Cross Promo Station Break (:59) Forward Promo

Daniel talks to Geraldine Youcha, author of "Minding the Children: Childcare in America form Colonial Times to the Present." She says that options we discuss for childcare today, such as federally funded daycare for children of working mothers and orphanages, have been tried in the past and that policymakers should look to history to examine the pros and cons of different childcare solutions.

Jyll Johnstone and Barbara Ettinger have explored the way they each were raised by nanny's in the 1950's in a new documentary called "Martha and Ethyl." Johnstone's nanny was a rigid disciplinarian, Ettinger had the opposite with a woman named Ethyl who she now look upon as a second mother.

We present the best and worst of the responses to last week's request for spring cleaning music - music while you clean!

NPR's Melissa Block reports survivors of the Long Islan Railroad shooting in New York made courtroom statements this past week in th trial of Colin Ferguson. He was convicted of killing 6 people during a shooting rampage on the railroad. Crime victims and their relatives are making their case in court more and more often.

Jacki Lyden talks to Geraldine Brooks, former Wall Street Journal corresspondant who has written a book on women and Islam. The book, "Nine parts of Desire" details some of Brooks more unusual experiences in the Middle East including a visit with the late Ayatollah Khomeni's family. Brooks says that there are many advantages in being a woman in that part of the world. The book is published by Doubleday.

Jacki talks with Dr. Sigmund Eckhouse. He's a former chemical engineer who for 36 years worked for the Army in developing the chemical agents that would be used in chemical weapons. They discuss the history of chemical weapons from World War one and up to the present.

NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on the efforts by lobbyists to influence the tort reform debate in Congress. This week, the House of Representatives passed a measure which limits the dollar amount that juries can award plaintiffs who sue doctors and manufacturers.

Laura Seidel reports from New York on the extradition to Oklahoma of convicted double murderer Thomas Grasso. Grasso had been serving a sentence of 20 years to life in New York--a state with no death penalty--but is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma early tomorrow morning.