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NPR's Chris Arnold reports that two studies released this week show small business owners are having better luck when they go to the bank. Banks are approving more applications from small business owners, but analysts aren't sure whether the change will last for very long.

who has introduced his own campaign finance reform legislation. Doolittle proposes to remove all spending caps on campaigns, but would require complete reporting of who gave what.

Linda reports on the hot new kids' tv series "Arthur." This is a series on public TV adapted from a series of books that has been around for more than two decades - now millions of books are selling a month, and this little aardvark has displaced "Barney and Friends" as the dominant children's show in many major TV markets.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that residents of the Zairian capitol of Kinshasa are starting to panic...as rebel forces fight their way to the city. Zaire's president Mobutu Sese Seko has refused to relinquish power, to rebel leader Laurent Kabile who now controls more than half the country.

- NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on the recent visit to Washington by Bosnian President Aliya Izetbegovic. The Bosnian leader is warning that war could break out against in his country if the United States and European powers don't do more to implement the Bosnian peace accords. (4:15) -b-

NPR's Howard Berkes reports from Salt Lake City on "Utahnics," which some are calling the language of Utah. It's a regional dialect although, as a linguist explains, it contains elements from other regions of the nation. In Utahnics, the words "hawk" and "hock" (as in hamhock) are indistinguishable. Utah natives also say "barn" for "born" and "born" for "barn."

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Washington on international efforts to mediate an end to the anarchy that has swept Albania. The efforts were being made by mediators on board an Italian ship in the Adriatic, as the Pentagon prepared to take new measures to defend its airlifts of civilians from Albania. Earlier today, a missile was fired at a US helicopter.

NPR's Kathy Lohr reports that Atlanta city officials say they're prepared for Freaknik -- the annual event that draws tens of thousands of African-American college students from around the country for the weekend. Parts of downtown will be so crowded that the businesses are expected to close for the weekend, and police will be on extra shifts to make sure the crowds stay in control.

The father of medicine, Hippocrates, taught that in practising medicine, the rule that comes before all others is... do no harm. A new study published in the British medical journal "The Lancet", finds that CONSIDERABLE harm was done to patients in a large American teaching hospital. Korva talks with Professor Lori Andrews, one of the authors of this report.

Despite three weeks of violent demonstrations and terrorist attacks, a majority of Israelis and Palestinians still support the peace process. But recent surveys reveal that the support is beginning to erode. A growing number of Palestinians say they approve of violent attacks against Israel, and a majority of Israelis rank the chances of war with Arabs as 'very high'. NPR's Eric Weiner reports.