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NPR's John Burnett reports on the controversy over whether a convicted sex offender in Texas should be surgically castrated. Larry Don McQuay, who's about to be released from prison, says he'll molest more children unless he's castrated... and there's been controversy over whether the state should sanction this kind of operation, and whether it will stop him from offending again.

- along the Via Dolorsa [VEE-uh doh-lah-ROH-suh]... the path Jesus walked to his death, this walk is referred to in a Christian Meditation known as the Stations of the Cross. Commentator Sister Maureen Fiedler sees the Stations of the Cross in the modern world in the faces of those who are unemployed, sick and destitute.

Linda Gradstein reports from the West Bank on the separation of Israelis and Palestinians. Israel is talking about permanently sealing off the West Bank and Gaze. Palestinians say this would mean economic disaster, but more Israelis are calling for separation.

The Europop band called Blur has been immensely popular in Britain for nearly seven years - yet the band can't seem to crack the U.S. market. Some say their music is too happy ...others say it's too snide. Rick Karr profiles the band and tries to find out just what it is.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that foreign policy, once thought to be less imporant than domestic policy during a presidential election season, is fast becoming an issue with the recent crises in Cuba, Israel and Northern Ireland.

and the growing disparity between the richest and poorest sections of society.

FBI is conducting at the secluded home of Unabomber suspect, Theodore Kaczynski.

of a woman from Southern Africa, known as the "Hottentot Venus," who was exhibited at freak shows in France during the early 1800's. The South African government wants a French museum to return Saartjie Baartmann's remains, as well as a plaster replica of her body.

Commentator Mickey Edwards says the government should not meddle in Amercians' decision to die.

Using scrap tires as fill to build roads is becoming a popular way to solve the nationwide surfeit of used tires. But Jennie Schmidt of member station K-P-L-U in Seattle reports that two roads built with tire chips have been burning for months, and leaching noxious chemicals into nearby water. It could put an end to this novel form of recycling.