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Michael speaks with NPR's Cheryl Devall, who's covering the annual meeting of the NAACP. It's the organization's first meeting under the leadership of its new president, Myrlie Evers-Williams.

Michael talks with Judge Hiller Zobel - who sits on the Massachusetts Superior Court - about the history of jury trials. Zobel says that even though juries have come under a lot of scrutiny in recent high profile trials, he believes a jury system is still the best available. And that any alternative that would grant more power to judges to decide cases would not be in the best interest of justice.

NPR's Debbie Elliot reports that if you survey the wake drawn this week by Hurricane Opal, you'd find that the barrier islands off the northwest coast of Florida were especially hard hit. Residents who'd fled the area returned today for a temporary visit...that's all the authorities would allow them... to see what the storm had done to their homes and businesses.

Okay. OJ is over. And that got critic Bob Mondello musing about how Hollywood has treated with the subject of juries in film.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the U.S. Civil Rights Commission met this week to examine race and sex discrimination in the nation's police forces.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa reports from New York on an effort to help poor, battered women divorce their abusive husbands.

The Pope was in New York today. We hear a bit of tape from his mass this morning in Central Park, and then Daniel talks with two students and a professor at Catholic University about their feelings concerning the significance and relevance of the Pope and his visit to America

While on assignment in Los Angeles, Daniel attempts to drive around the city with the aid of a computer called a "Global Positioning System" or G-P-S. The computer is mounted on the dashboard and is programmed to guide you thru a city to a specific destination. Daniel also talks with an Automotive Technologies manager at Rockwell International, the company that sells the G-P-S to companies.

Daniel talks with Lonny Shavelson, author of "A Chosen Death," (Simon and Schuster) about the rights of the handicapped to chose assisted suicide. In his book, Shavelson tells the story of one very intelligent, life-affirming man who was completely incapacitated as the result of an accident as a young boy. And though this man enjoyed life in spite of his confinement to a wheel chair and his inability to speak, the physical and emotional limitations became too great a burden and he ultimately chose to fast to death.

Daniel talks to three professors at Howard University... Janet Dates, Leroy Wells, and Richard Wright... about issues of race and how blacks and whites see cultural institutions differently.