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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo on the efforts to re-build Bosnia's economy and infrastructure. After three-and-a-half years of war, there are no jobs, no industry, housing is limited and the country's transportation, water and electricity infrastructure is wrecked. The World Bank estimates the cost for rebuilding Bosnia at more than five-billion-dollars.

NPR's John Burnett reports that prison administrators are looking favorably on the efforts of prison ministries to convert inmates. As prison populations are rising, officials are looking for ways to cut ricidivism rates and cut down on tension in prison. There is now some research that supports the notion that finding religion aids in the rehablitation process.

NPR's Ted Clark reports on the list of Chinese products that are targeted for heavy tariffs if the Beijing government does not make progress in snuffing out piracy of American movies, music, and software. The list has been tailored to minimize the effect on American consumers.

Martha Raddatz reports from Bosnia on her visit with Colonel Gregory Fontenot (FONT-un-no), Commander of the U.S. Army's First Brigade, on the day-to-day experience of leading NATO troops as they seek to implement the peace accords.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that the Clinton administration has condemned Cuba for yesterday's shootdown of two unarmed civilian planes. The U.S. says the planes were flying over international waters when they were downed, although a third plane did stray into Cuban airspace. That plane was not downed.

NPR'S Margo Adler reports that at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, the Israeli flag is draped outside the building wall, and inside students walk about in shock, or sit in the sanctuary praying. This is where Matt Eisenfeld was a student. He was one of two Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Israel

NPR's Neal Conan remembers the Liberation of Kuwait five years to the day after President George Bush announced the liberation was complete, a ceasefire agreed to, and Operation Desert Storm brought to an end. Conan was with the first group of reporters allowed into Kuwait on the day of liberation, and recounts what the day was like from beginning to end.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports from Hong Kong on environmentalists attempt to save the pink dolphin, which they say make up a unique subspecies. The dolphins, which are falling victim to construction of a new airport, may get their own sanctuary... if the government acts before they all die off.

Ingrid Lobet of member station KPLU reports on the scramble to do business in the Russian Far East. Huge reserves of oil and gas as well as timber and other natural resources are about to be exploited, and entrepreneurs who cut their teeth in the Alaskan oil fields and northwestern forests are eager to try their hand in Russia.

Craig DeSilva of Hawaii Public radio reports that the craze of Japanese investment in property is over. Japanese companies are selling off their multi-million dollar properties at huge losses. Nowhere is this more dramatic than in Hawaii...where Japanese investors are selling at a loss.