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NPR's Ted Clark reports that private non-governmental organizations, or N-G-O's, are trying to ship much needed food to famine-stricken North Korea without violating U-S-imposed embargos.

Environmentalists contend that acts of violence and harassment against activists are increasing in number. NPR's John Nielsen reports that the US Forest Service and Justice Department say they don't know about the existence of a trend, but they're taking steps to head off such incidents.

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in China tomorrow, visiting Beijing during China's historic period of transition following the death of its leader this past week, Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping's funeral will be held Tuesday. NPR's Julie McCarthy reports.

The White House and FBI remain at loggerheads over the handling of information that China might be trying to influence U.S. elections with campaign contributions. The White House insists the FBI kept the President uninformed, but the FBI says there was no restriction on the information. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

The past couple of years have been marked by an unusually high level of incivility in Congress, and this weekend, there's a retreat underway to address the problem. Liane Hansen speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, who wrote the background report for the retreat.

NPR's Laurie Neff reports on a visit to Israel today by Jordan's King Hussein. The King will visit with survivors from last week's shooting by a Jordanian soldier of Israeli schoolchildren, and then meet with Israeli government officials on the progress of peace in the region.

NPR'S Anne Garrels reports that peace remains elusive in one of the longest and bloodiest ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet era... the war between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia. There has been a tentative ceasefire for three years now, but there is little hope for a lasting peace, as the two sides remain far apart.

Information is coming out about the 39 people who committed suicide in San Diego. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports from San Diego on some of the men and women who killed themselves, apparently as part of a voluntary mass suicide by members of the "Heaven's Gate" religious group.

NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a new study of what children are being taught about the environment. The study says the environmental education needs to be overhauled because it's currently indocrinated with pro-environmental ideology. But supporters of current curricula say they're just presenting the facts.

Children's horror author R.L. Stine is wildly popular with schoolchildren...and a popular target of parents, who want his books off the shelves of elementary school libraries. John Biewen of Minnesota Public Radio reports on a debate that illustrates what some see as a gray zone between selection...and censorship.