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Robert talks with Naomi Goodin, a line worker at the Saturn Corporation in Tennessee, about Saturn's unique management structure. Although no Saturn cars were produced during the General Motors brake parts strike, Saturn workers remained on the job to do training, team development and other workshops. Saturn workers are organized in "teams," within which jobs are rotated. Goodin is a team leader whose team puts doors on Saturn automobiles.

and children have been taking turns waiting in line around the clock for the last two weeks, in hopes of gaining admission to the city's only alternative public high school.

Linda talks with two experts about the legal and moral issues involved with undercover reporting. They discuss when undercover journalism is necessary, and what it really accomplishes. The question of when "getting the story" crosses the line from legitimate factfinding and journalism into deception has come into sharp focus, with the punitive damages award handed down today in a trial which pitted the ABC network against the Food Lion supermarket chain.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from London on the most recent campaign by the Irish Republican Army against the government of the United Kingdom. This campaign uses the threat of a bomb to upset life in Britain. Over the past two weeks there have been small bomb explosions on railroad lines, threats against railroads and highways. Most recently a phoned-in threat stopped the running of the historic Grand National steeplechase horse race.

Commentator Bob Garfield was recently in Pittsburgh, and decided to check out the telephone information service provided by the University of Pittsburgh. The fact line will answer virtually any questions, as he found out...especially if your question involves where to get a class schedule or when spring break begins...but the student employees will also find out the meanings of obscure words and answers to trivia questions if you ask.

Vocalist Joan La Barbara performs a work of hers dedicated to runners and divers. The piece, "Time(d) Trials and Unscheduled Events" was first heard at the Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles, in 1984. It focused on the rhythmic breathing of runners and the lines traced in the air by divers. (5:00) (IN S

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on this week's fundraising controversies involving Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff, Maggie Williams. What's clear is how raising money pushes limits. It's a craft that works in loopholes, gray areas and blurry lines, making it difficult to determine if the letter of the law was broken.

Commentator David Weinberger says new wireless devices are changing how the internet will be used. As you carry your hand-held computer, you'll now be able to learn what restaurants and stores might be around you, and even who is nearby. Weinberger says this will also create more social interaction, though interaction of "decreasing significance," like strangers passing to ask each other directions on-line.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports from the Capitol on Democratic reaction to Al Gore's continued legal pursuit of the presidency. Right now, Democrats seem united in their support of the Vice President, but many are also considering how they'll work with a Bush administration. With the Senate split evenly down party lines, party leaders say they'll expect to share power with the GOP in any case.

Jeff Brady of Oregon Public Radio reports on how some small and medium-sized cities have solved the problem with getting access to cable lines: they've started their own cable businesses. In Ashland, Oregon, competition from the city has made the private cable company widen its services, and provide open access to it's high-speed network for public schools and libraries. (