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NPR's Howard Berkes reports on several paramillitary groups who may have had a connection with the bombing in Oklahoma City. He reports on their motivations and what kind of people join these groups as well as how they organize.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on a proposal in New York City to create separate schools for children who've been caught bringing weapons to class. The schools would be modelled after the Wildcat Academy, an alternative school in New York for troubled students.

40 years ago from this past week - Dr. Jonas Salk announced the success of a polio vaccine. Last year, Weekend All Things Considered interviewed Mark O'Brien, one of the few remaining polio sufferers who is still dependent on an iron lung. O'Brien reads a poem called "Stir" that he wrote about the frustrations of being confined to this apparatus which makes life possible for him at all.

A year after South Africa elected its first post-apartheid Government NPR's Anne Cooper visits a school just outside Johannesburg to see how the education system is faring. She finds a thriving makeshift school, created not by Government but by the drive and determination of the school principle.

NPR's Anthony Brooks reports on the debate at Brown University over school funding for women's sports. Under a federal law called Title IX, schools are required to offer men and women the same opportunities as far as athletics are concerned. But, critics of Title IX say the law is damaging to sports programs for men.

A deadly storm hit the northern part of Texas late Friday night killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100. With winds topping 70 mph, power was knocked out at Dallas-Fort Worth Internatinal Airport causing flight delays and flood waters poured into Baylor University Medical Centre contaminating emergency equitpment. Member station KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.

Daniel talks with Neal Underwood the mayor of Mt. Vernon Missouri. The town in Southeastern Missouri is offering the elderly and disabled there "taxi" rides for a mere 25 cents. The city sponsors and pays for the service which makes use of police cars that were no longer being used, but still in good condition.

Daniel talks with Rasheed Khalidi, professor of Middle East History at the University of Chicago and Janet Dates, Dean of Communications at Howard University in Washington D.C. They'll discuss how certain ethnic groups tend to be either credited or blamed for certain events and how the media helps perpetuate stereotypes.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to Detective Rick Sexton, the composite sketch artist for Fairfax county police about how he goes about sketching a suspect based on witness accounts. Sexton says he very often waits to interview people for a sketch until they're more calm and relaxed, even if that means they forget a few details about a suspects appearance.

NPR's Philip Davis reports that beginning this year, 27 states and the District of Columbia have been required, under the Federal Clean Air Act, to begin tougher automobile emissions testing. The rules would require motorists to have their cars tested at centralized test sites, as opposed to the local gas station, where much of the testing is now done. Most of the states involved are upset with the requirement, arguing they don't want to spend the money to build new tests sites. And motorists are angry, because of added inconvenience.