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NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that President Clinton's proposed budget for Medicare relies mainly on reducing payments to hospitals and other health-care providers. And his proposal for Medicaid would place a cap on spending by the federal government. Republicans were receptive to the size of the President's cuts, but they were displeased with many of the budget's details.

Several schools in Houston, Texas are trying an innovative way to teach kids how to write: give them cameras. Teachers say when the kids have the pictures, they work hard to create accompanying words that tell a story. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco reports that paleontologists are finding huge numbers of pre-historic fossils in the tunnels dug for the new Los Angeles subway system. The bones come largely from mammals who lived in the area toward the end of the Ice Age, about 20,000 years ago.

The BBC's Andrew Harding reports that Russian President Boris Yeltsin plans to go back to work Monday. Yeltsin appeared on television to announce his plans, and told Russians he is full of energy. He also promised to tackle the country's economic problems.

Owen Bennett-Jones reports from Geneva on efforts by the Swiss to calm the controversy over the role of Swiss Banks during the Second World War. Jewish groups are trying to find out what happened to money deposited by Holocaust victims. The banks have said in the past the money isn't in their vaults.

NPR's John McChesney reports on allegations that Microsoft's latest internet software has some serious security flaws which will put some users at risk. Microsoft says it's new Active-X technology is secure, but others claim it's still not fixed.

Internet users around the world watched the global network slow to a crawl last week after a single internet service provider posted some bad routing information. The problem was quickly identified and corrected. Engineers say the surprising thing is that such a large part of the entire internet was affected by a problem at a single computer. Peter Aronson reports.

Chitra Ragavan reports the FBI has transferred three senior lab technicians involved in the Oklahoma bomb case after a Justice Department inquiry.

A former prosecutor in DuPage County, Illinois, who is now a circuit court judge, is among a number of officials who face criminal charges in connection with allegations that they investigated and prosecuted the wrong man for murder. From member station WBEZ, David Schaper reports.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem that though it has been obvious for weeks that an Israeli pullout of troops from Hebron would occur, the final signing of an agreement by Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat early today still came as a shock to die-hard settlers who feel the deal was a betrayal by the Prime Minister they helped elect.