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Carmen Deedee has this story about her Mother's weakness for the 5 and Dime icon.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to Washington Post reporter Nora Boustany about suicide bombers. Boustany spent almost 20 years reporting from the Middle East. She says the process of indoctrinating young Palestinian men into martydom cults begins during childhood. Boustany says these young men are convinced that they are giving their lives for their faith and that they will be rewarded in heaven.

The flexible workplace is up and running at Hewlett-Packard. HP employees not only help set their own schedules, but also decide whether to job share or telecommute. Small manufacturers are also getting more flexible. NPR's David Molpus visits a North Carolina textile mill to show how things are changing.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that the World Health Organization said today that the link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease remains uncertain. But even if there is a connection, the WHO said current precautions would minimize any risk of acquiring the extremely rare disease from eating beef.

Gillian Sharpe ((JILL-ee-uhn)) reports from the Hague that a Bosnian Croat general has pleaded not guilty during a hearing at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal. General Tihomir Blaskic ((TEE-oh-meer BLAHS-

arranged Middle East Terrorism Summit in Cairo next week, and the impact of the recent Hamas bombings on Israeli Prime Minister Peres political future.

SUSAN SPEAKS WITH KAREN NUSSBAUM, WHO ON FRIDAY LEFT HER JOB AS HEAD OF THE LABOR DEPARTMENT'S WOMEN'S BUREAU. SHE WILL HEAD UP THE AFL-CIO'S NEW WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT. MS. NUSSBAUM SAYS WORKING WOMEN KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEMS ARE BUT THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO SOLVE THEM.

Baseball season officially begins tonight in the United States. NPR's David Welna reports it is not only a favorite American spectator sport, it is also hugely popular in Cuba where it is played year round. Welna was in Havana earlier this month, just in time for the opening games of Cuba's Revolution Cup.

Robert Siegel speaks with ex-college basketball players Willie Worsley and Larry Conley about the historic 1966 championship game between Kentucky and Texas Western (now UTEP). In the game, the all-Black starting players for Texas Western beat the all-White Kentucky team. Although the game had tremendous implications for the integration of college basketball, neither Worsely, who played for Texas, nor Conley, who played for Kentucky, realized it at the time.

In eastern Pennsylvania's 15th District, a hard fought campaign for the U.S. House seat is already underway. The incumbent Democrat won by a razor thin margin two years ago, and the 1996 election promises to be just as close. NPR will chronical the campaign in this swing district throughout the year. NPR's Steve Inskeep introduces the candidates.