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NPR'S CHERYL DEVALL REPORTS ON CHICAGO CONGRESSMAN MEL REYNOLDS' CONVICTION THIS WEEK ON CHARGES OF SEXUAL ABUSE, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE DERIVING FROM HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH AN UNDERAGE YOUNG WOMAN, AND HOW THIS WILL AFFECT HIS CONGRESSIONAL SEAT.

Mark Urycki (your-ICK-ee) of member station WKSU in Kent, hio, reports on the recent theft of some folio pages removed from a manuscript n the Vatican library. The man suspected of the crime is an art history rofessor who denies the charges.

This past Friday, the Senate Appropriations ommittee voted to cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by forty ercent. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Washington Post reporter Jacqueline rescott about the steps that eventually lead to these final reduction ecisions.

Affirmative Action has taken some hard hits n California this past year. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the chancellor t the Univeristy of California at Berkeley is currently developing a igh-profile outreach campaign for the next generation of minority students

The Maldives are a group of islands in the Indian Ocean. They've got a problem. Due to global warming, the waters around the Maldives are rising, and within 50 years, the islands may no longer exist, sunk, as it were, underneath the ocean. Eric Weiner visited the Maldives and prepared this report.

Liane Hansen speaks with Washington Post reporter Nora oustany (boos-STAHN-nee) about the two Iraqi generals who defected last week rom the inner circle of Saddam Hussein. The generals have called for the verthrow of Hussein through pressure from the international community.

- Diplomats at the United Nations say they worry that Africa is once again becoming the forgotten continent. NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that conflicts such as that in Burundi are getting minimal attention as the world's powers express growing impatience for becoming embroiled in struggles among African peoples.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Russia is receiving a big investment from the West. Despite the uncertainty as the nation heads into the presidential election season, the International Monetary Fund has agreed to lend Moscow more than ten-billion-dollars.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that legislation that kept the federal government open also restricted funding of research on human embryos. Opponents of the research say it is unethical. But proponents say it could lead to important understanding that could help improve fertility treatments.

Today is International Human Rights Day, arking the anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human ights in l948. NPR'S Mike Shuster reports on human rights in Bosnia just days efore the formal signing of the Bosnia peace plan.