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Alex Van Oss reports on the latest developments in the controversial World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. There has been opposition to the proposed memorial, which would be built on one of the few open spaces remaining on the Mall, near the Washington Monument.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports on the logistics of flying a couple of bears halfway around the world. The two pandas that arrived at the National Zoo in Washington, D-C yesterday, came over on a special airlift from China.

Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds in the inland northern cities. He calls it the "northern city shift."

Twenty-five years ago today, the leaders of Egypt and Israel signed a framework for peace in the Middle East. President Jimmy Carter, who mediated the Camp David Accords, tells NPR's Bob Edwards the historic agreement holds lessons for the region today.

Lisa visits the estate of the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriwether Post in Washington D.C. She views emeralds as big as bars of soap and a tiara fit for an empress.

In 1893, the mayor of Chicago was shot and killed in his home. That murder inspired a local priest, Brother Casimir Zeglen, to invent an early bulletproof vest. Historian Paul Collins rediscovered the forgotten inventor and tells Scott Simon the details.

For more than 100 years, women would arrive at twilight at the plazas of San Antonio, Texas, to cook chili over open fires. Soldiers, tourists, cattlemen and troubadours roamed the tables, filling the night with music. The Kitchen Sisters tell their story.

NPR's Melissa Block reports that in New York, two judges have come under fire for controversial rulings, one involving drug evidence that was thrown out in a federal case; the other involving a man freed on bail who then killed his girlfriend. Political opposition to these rulings has reached a fevered pitch, raising questions about judicial independence and the potential chilling effect of political pressure on the courts. Now Congress is involved and trying to get the White House to play a role. (8:00) CUTAWAY 2C 0:59 2D 16. FARM BILL -- Next week, Congress will vote on a bill that will result in a historic overhaul of the farm programs. Linda talks with Republican Congressman Pat Roberts of Kansas, who is the chair the House Agriculture Committee and who has been working out the details of this seven-year plan to ween farmers off the subsidy government programs. The bill will end traditional price-based subsidies and the government planting controls that control them. The bill is expected to pass through the House and Senate and President Clinton is expected to sign the bill.

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Hookworm, a chronic infection that causes anemia and malnutrition, was once a problem in the U.S. Now, it's a disease of the world's poorest. A small band of scientists are working on a vaccine, with the help of a community in Brazil.