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Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on New York's latest attempt to improve its 'quality of life'...by criminalizing what it considers "aggressive panhandling" in the city. But thee are concerns that the move limits beggars' Constitutional rights to free speech.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that despite warnings about the possibility of genocidal violence in Burundi, and frequent calls for a UN intervention force, the international community has been caught off-guard by the coup there, and is uncertain how to proceed.

- NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Tokyo on the opening week of Starbucks first coffeehouse outside North America. It's in a land better known for its tea. But this Starbucks is a hit with the Japanese and with visiting Americans.

- Daniel talks with Reporter Eileen LeBlanc from Wilmington, North Carolina about the clean up from Hurricane Bertha. The hurricane has now moved into New England but not before pounding North Carolina's outer banks.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo that the NATO-led peace-keeping force is preparing for this coming Saturday's election. International organizations are worried that war refugees will run into problems when they try to return to their old homes to vote.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on the death of Seymour Cray, who developed the supercomputer. These very powerful computers perform complex calculations used in predicting weather and building bombs. Cray died from injuries sustained in a car accident. He was 71.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that Clinton administration officials have declared the recent elections in Bosnia a success, and are delicately raising the issue of U-S troops staying in Bosnia longer than a year.

Robert Siegel and Linda Wertheimer review news accounts from around the world about the Atlanta Olympics - and the problems the foreign press corps has reported on... problems both large and small.

With the formation of the Gore Commission, which is looking into airport security issues, there's expectation that airports will be required to install more sophisticated detection equipment. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

- Lorna Benson of Minnesota Public Radio reports on a controversy involving a practitioner of holistic medicine in the twin cities. The state is trying to keep Helen Healy from practicing naturopathic medicine, but her patients as well as fellow practitioners are lobbying on her behalf.