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NPR's Martha Guild reports on a rather sad story. Last September Ann Barrett overdosed on antidepressants. When the police found her they also discovered a 400-page diary which they took for a suicide note. They confiscated it and to the despair of the family .. lost it.

Jacki talks with Rolling Stone magazine music critic Anthony DeCurtis about the value of Greatest Hits albums. Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits suceeded Garth Brooks greatest hits on the Album charts and DeCurtis talks of the merits of buying such collections.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Tokyo the Japanese police continue to raid a religious cult and find evidence of the cult being involved in this past week's chemical gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

ITEM VETO - Jacki talks with James Thurber, the head of Congressional and Presidential Studies at American Univeristy in Washington D.C. Both houses of Congress have approved giving the President the Line-Item Veto...the ability of the President to veto specific portions of spending bills. Thurber discusses what the implications are.

Critic Bob Mondello muses about the cost of entertainment...now and a generation ago...and how much we all have to work to afford that ticket to the latest movie or sporting event.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that the Senate this week took up a 13 billion dollar spending recision bill. The House has passed a bill of 17 Billion. Arnold reports on the differences between the bills and that President Clinton says he will veto the House version.

NPR's John Burnett spends an evening with Dr. Marvin Tuttle - a man whose mission in life it is to protect and educate people about the misunderstood bat. Tuttle says bats are key to ecological balance not to mention they're great at keeping the mosquito population and other crop eating pests under control.

The Aum Shinrykio sect is now the principal suspect in the Tokyo subway gassing last Monday. Over the past few days Japanese police have confiscated huge amounts of chemical compounds from their headquaters. But as Anne Garrels reports from Moscow the sect also has a large following in Russia - almost three times as many members as in Japan. But some of them are less willing than others.

Daniel talks with Harold Wonkle - deputy assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigations Division about the Russian mafia. Recently the FBI opened up an office in Moscow in order to work more closely with the Russian police in combatting Russian criminals whose efforts often extend into the United States. Wonkle says the Russian mafia is very sophisticated and is involved in everything from moneylaundering to medical fraud.

Daniel visits the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, where development and deforestation have caused a shortage of drinking water. Industrial and commercial development has interfered with natural water patterns, and poor regulation of polluters has exacerbated the problem.