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Craig speaks with Dr. Irwin Hyman, author of the book The Case Against Spanking. Dr. Hyman says if the United States banned spanking, the incidence of violence and child abuse would decrease. He strongly criticizes the continued use of corporal punishment in many school districts.

Surgeon General nominee Henry Foster today disputed the latest charges against him and denied any knowledge or involvement in the notorious Tuskegee Experiment. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

Jackie talks to Charles Hall, an Advertising executive who has launched his own campaign to try and combat date rape. He is distributing evocative posters with the words "this is not an invitation to rape me" written in the centre. Hall launched this campaign after a female friend was attacked following his 30th birthday party. He will be releasing television and radio commercials later this year.

NPR's Margo Adler reports on the aftermath of yesterday's vote that ousted the NAACP's chairman. The new chair, Myrlie Evers-Williams, inherits an organization that is deep and debt and whose image has been tarnished by allegations of mismanagement.

A powerful House subcommittee has voted to kill a program that helps poor people with AIDS pay for housing. NPR's Vicky Que examines the Republican rationale for the vote, as well as warnings from AIDS activists that the measure is likely to throw thousands of infected people into shelters, increasing the danger of tuberculosis in those facilities.

Daniel talks to Gregory Williams, author of the book, "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black." The book deals with Williams' discovery, as a ten-year-old Virginia schoolboy during the 1950's, that his father was really black and he, therefore, was also black. Williams recounts his ostracism from white society, his personal conflicts and his ultimate embrace of his black identity.

Daniel visits an exhibit of household items from Elizabethan England at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Curator Leena Cowan Orlin says that it's relatively easy to imagine what life was like back then because a detailed inventory was kept of every item in the home.

As the House prepares to vote on rolling back the "Great Society" welfare programs of the 1960's and to give states the power to run their own assistance programs, one state-based program -- child support enforcement - is likely to become a federal one. NPR's Peter Kenyon examines this exception to the devolutionary trend.

This past week, dieters learned some bad news: even if you lose weight, your body will still fight to return to its old weight. Gwen Machsai reflects on the endless battle over weightloss.

Daniel talks with Bowdoin College economics professor Rick Freeman about how one goes about doing a cost benefit analysis. The Republicans would like to pass legislation that could require such an analysis for every federal law that would have a major economic impact. Mr. Freeman explains exactly how the process works.