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The business community in the state of Texas is feeling the mpact of the Mexico's recent peso devaluation. Host Liane Hansen speaks with ohn Ira Petty, business reporter for the Houston Post, about local reaction to he current currency disaster.

In the final installment of the NPR series 'The Subject is Sex,' Reporter Ginger Miles describes how her expectations of adulthood as a college student were very different from the way things turned out.

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.

NPR'S ANN COOPER REPORTS FROM SOWETO OTHAT ALTHOUGH APARTHEID HAS OFFICIALLY ENDED IN SOUTH AFRICA, THE APARTHEID "MENTALITY" STILL EXISTS IN THAT COUNTRY'S POLICE FORCE.

Maureen Hanley reports on the efforts of Irish Radio (RTE) to reserve their deteriorating collection of field recordings of traditional Irish usic. Some of the recordings date back to the 1920's, and are in the process of eing digitaly re-mastered.

The Legal Services Corporation once again is under attack. NPR's on Greenberg reports the Republican effort to trim the group's budget is just he latest battle the Corporation has had to fight in its long and troubled istory.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the actions of Senate Republicans ho say public financing for presidential campaigns should be repealed. They rgue it's a budget cutting move, but others say it's a small price to pay if it akes candidates less beholding to big monied interests.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports from Oklahoma City on how several businesses near the area of last week's blast have been affected by the tragedy...and their efforts to once-again open their doors to customers.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON HOW OKLAHOMANS ARE COPING WITH THE AFTERMATH THE THE BOMBIMG ON APRIL 19TH, AND HOW THAT TRAGEDY MAY HELP CHANGE OLD OKLAHOMAN STEREOTYPES.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY, CITY POLICE BOMBED A WEST PHILADELPHIA ROW HOUSE OCCUPIED BY THE RADICAL GROUP MOVE, DESTROYING AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. VICKY QUAY OF MEMBER STATION WHYY REPORTS.