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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich is on trial for espionage in Russia. A mysterious metallic monolith appeared in Las Vegas this month.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday that he doubts the U.S. economy will fall into a recession. Greenspan believes consumer spending will not be enough to avoid a slowdown, but it will keep the economy growing. NPR's John Ydstie reports.

Vicki O'Hara reports that as a result of the exhaustive Congressional hearings that followed the terrorist bombing of US troops in Dhahran last June, the House National Security Committee has blamed the US intelligence organizations with being ill-informed about and ill-prepared for the terrorist threat in Saudi Arabia.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that the Pentagon has concluded that the terrorist bombing of a military installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia that resulted in the deaths of nineteen US servicemen in this summer was not the result of faulty intelligence but of a failure of the military command to adopt necessary security precautions.

on a victory for the federal government in the continuing battle with western states over control of federal land.

on the increasing debate over today's "Take Our Daughters to Work Day".

on secretaries who have abusive bosses and what they can do to defend themselves.

on the people who try to walk across the frozen Bering Sea from Alaska to Russia.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Bosnia that international authorities in Bosnia today warned the Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croats to release all their prisoners of war by tonight or face economic sanctions. The Muslim-led Bosnian government yesterday released 109 Serb prisoners. But none of the sides is on schedule. Under the terms of the Bosnian peace agreement, all prisoners were to have been freed last January. Gjelten reports that the delayed prisoner release is just one of several snags in the Bosnian peace process.

Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter John Allen. He covers the Vatican for the paper and has a regular column, "The View From Rome." This week American cardinals are meeting in Rome to discuss the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church in the United States.