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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.

Dennis Foon is an award-winning Canadian playwright and author, best-known for his dramas which deal with issues facing young people. Harriet Baskas reports on Foon's "The Short Tree and the Bird that Could Not Sing".

NPR's Ted Clark reports that representatives of the United States and both North and South Korea finally met for the first time in New York today for preliminary discussions on starting peace talks concerning the Korean peninsula.

Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on the impact the possible American Airlines strike is already having on air travelers. Thousands of people may be stranded if there's a strike, and they're scrambling to book new flights.

Linda talks with Amy Clemens, a reporter for the Arusha Times and the United Radio Service in Arusha, Tanzania. They discuss the trial of former Hutu militia leader Georges Rutaganda, who has been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity.