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Daniel talks to Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Henry Felisone of the Evangelical Mission Church about recent violence at clinics where abortions are performed. Gans says that her organization condemns violence in the name of the antiabortion movement and that the violence does nothing to stop abortions. Felisone says that killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable homicide and that it is philosophically inconsisent to say that abortion is murder but to condemn the killing of people who perform abortions.

Jacki talks to Rolling Stone editor Anthony DeCurtis about the new CD by Throwing Muses, "University." DeCurtis says that Throwing Muses was a precursor to the group of young bands led by women that have recently become popular. There are a lot of nonnarrative lyrics in the songs by the bandleader, Kristin Hersh, who uses the voices of her children and the ocean in some of the compositions.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Kobe Japan. She follows around police officials who are helping people cope with this weeks devastating earthquake.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on the numbers involved in the debate on welfare reform. There are many statistics on welfare, and politicans involved in the issue have been choosing stats that support their point of view.

Daniel talks with Jim Wallis, author of the "Soul of Politics". Wallis says both Republicans and Democrats are entrenched in old ways of thinking, particularly when it comes to the topic of welfare reform. Wallis says that both the left and the right have some good ideas when it comes to solving welfare woes, but he says real reform will only occur when both the public and private sector begins to take collective responsibility for the country's problems.

NPR's Ann Cooper attends the funeral of Joe Slovo, a long time South African anti-apartheid activist, member of the African National Congress and Communist Party. She has this remembrance.

Jacki talks with nationally syndicated political cartoonists Tom Toles of the Buffalo News and U.S. News & World Report....and Ed Gamble of the Florida Times-Union...about the state of political cartooning today. They say today there's more material and more cartoonists than ever before.

Daniel talks to David Rydowski, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida) about the crime legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week. It allows for some evidence acquired improperly to be allowed in court. McCollum says that people are tired of criminals avoiding convictions on technicalities, but Rydowski is afraid that it would be a a violation of the Constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure.

Jacki talks with California Fish and Game Department official Perry Hergesell about the somewhat beneficial effects--for San Francisco Bay--of this month's devastating floods.

Like many of South America's indians who have suffered virtual cultural extinction in recent years, the Chachi Indians of Ecuador are undergoing a similiar fate. But, a group of U.S. researchers have invited a couple of Chachi's to replicate a Chachi village and Chachi culture at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Boca Raton. NPR's Chris Joyce has this report.