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NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports on a study concerning patients with moderately severe Alzheimer's Disease. It seems that those who were given vitamin E -- which protects brain cells -- progressed more slowly to the more debilitating stages of the disease.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on a major new campaign by the United Farmworkers Union. The union seemed to lose its way after the death of charismatic founder Cesar Chavez, but now it's back with a big effort to organize California's strawberry workers.

Robert talks with Ze'ev Chaifets (HEH-fets), a columnist for the Jerusalem Report, about the allegations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the public reaction to charges that he planned to install a political ally as Israel's Attorney General.

NPR's Rick Karr reports from Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, about the beginning of the cleanup after the area's devastation by flood waters.

David Culhane reports from Paris on the annual ceremony to honor the memory of the Marquis de Lafayette. Each Fourth of July, the French and American governments honor the hero of the American revolution and change the flag flying over Lafayette's tomb.

in the United States with a report on proposed strategies for correcting the problem.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports on the ambivalent relationship between Taiwanese businessmen and China. China is the world's biggest market but also an undependable one, subject to the whims of the country's politics.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the legal maneuverings in the trial of Yigal Amir, who confessed to assassinating Yitzhak Rabin. It's not even clear whether or not Amir entered a guilty plea, foreshadowing the legal complexities to come.

In Chicago an indictment is expected today in a corruption case involving eight public officials, including several alderman. They are accused of accepting bribes in return for city contracts for hauling construction debris. NPR'S Cheryl Corley reports.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that President Clinton signed legislation early this morning temporarily ending the partial government shutdown. But the White House and Congress have still not agreed on how to balance the budget, so negotiations continue.