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Scott reports on the Central Artery Project currently underway in downtown Boston. The biggest public works project in the U.S. that will take a major roadway and put it underground for a cost of more than one-billion dollars per mile.

The Pentagon announced today that an Iraqui weapons depot destroyed by American troops after the Gulf war contained chemical weapons. Some American soldiers may have been exposed to the chemicals. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

The BBC's Jon Devitt reports from Belgrade that Serbia and Croatia have initialed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations. Foreign ministers from the two countries will meet later this month in an attempt to solve the problems existing between them.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports from Israel on the Palestinian reaction to Netanyahu's victory. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is said to be stunned by the election results, and pessimistic about prospects for the peace process.

Reporter Eric Westerfelt is in Montoursville, Pa., home of 16 high school students and their five chaperons who were passenge on TWA Flight 800. Westerfelt tells Robert Siegel about the shock the tragedy has caused in the community.

- NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on hearings held on Capitol Hill this past week looking into the rising cost of college tuition. With costs rising, and enrollment declining on many campuses, parents are being asked to pay more and more for their children's education.

- The recent spate of church burnings in the South got NPR's Margot Adler to thinking about fire, and the symbolism it carries in Southern culture. She reports on how fire has been in theme in Southern literature, and Southern life, back since the nineteenth century.

- NPR's Eric Weiner reports that Arab leaders are gathering in Cairo, Egypt this weekend for the first Arab summit since the Persian Gulf war. They're discussing strategies to respond to the election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's new prime minister.

- NPR's Richard Gonzalez reports on a club in Oakland, CA, that sells marijuana to people suffering from AIDS and some other severe diseases. Business is especially brisk since a similar club was raided and closed down by police in San Francisco.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on new evidence linking the demise of dinosaurs to a meteor which struck the earth more than 60 million years ago. Was it not for this meteor, dinosaurs rather than humans would be populating the earth today.