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Four years ago, Lead or Leave was founded as a poltical organization aimed at young Americans. Although the organization received a lot of press attention, commentator Michele Mitchell says the group, as well as Third Millenium, another organization aimed at the same generation, have both failed to attract many followers.

Vincent Thompson of member station WHYY reports on the major dispruption on Interstate-95, five miles north of Philadelphia. Arsonists set a huge pile of illegally dumped tires on fire, and that, in turn, damaged a section of the highway that carries about 150-thousand cars each day.

Commentator Ona [OH-nah] Sipporin was in Alaska this week -- to see part of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. While in the Village of Takatna [tah-KAHT-nah], she saw a community turn out in force to offer hospitality and warmth to the mushers and their dogs.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that although many are focusing on who Robert Dole should choose as a running mate, the real task ahead of him is how to function as Senate Majority Leader when his presidential rival is head of the executive branch.

NPR's Tovia (TOH-vee-uh) Smith reports on today's verdict in the John Salvi murder trial. Salvi was found guilty on two charges of first degree murder and five of assualt in an attack on a Boston area abortion clinic in 1994.

For about two decades, Caroline Hebard has spent much of her time in a most unusual way - searching with her German Shepherds for victims of natural and manmade disasters. Hebard and her dogs are experts in canine search and rescue - an art that originated in Europe but is now used in the United States. In this piece, we meet Hebard and her dogs and they take Danny out for a little training session in the art of search and rescue.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how the health of the generation born after World War II compares to that of their parents. The so-called fitness craze -- which hasn't lasted and is not that pervasive -- has little to do with the fact that they probably will live longer than their parents. And the fitness craze hasn't kept them from aging.

JENNIFER LUDDEN REPORTS FROM BURKINA FASO THAT THE DEVASTATING DISEASE...RIVER BLINDNESS HAS ALMOST BEEN WIPED OUT.

SCOTT REFLECTS ON THE FACT THAT THIS WEEK BILL CLINTON GAVE THE SHORTEST SPEECH OF HIS PRESIDENCY.

This week the Congress and White House were at odds over whether the cap damages in product liability cases. To discuss what kind of products injure consumers, and to find out how often such injuries lead to litigation, Danny speaks with David Pittle, Vice President & Technical Director of Consumer's Union (he was also once commissioner of the Consumer Products Safety Commission); and with Paula Mergenhagen, a writer for American Demographics magazine. It turns out that only five percent of consumer injuries resulting from damaged products (not including automobiles) trigger lawsuits.