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Robert speaks with artist J.S.G. Boggs about the new US $100 bill, which features an off-center portrait of benjamin Franklin. Boggs uses images of currency in his art. He says the portrait is marvelous, the whole design of the bill terrible. He says the original plans called for something far more daring. He says this is "the dog's lunch by committee"

- Tom speaks with Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about efforts by that organization to locate children who've been reported missing around the country. Allen says that police receive more than 800-thousand reports of missing children annually. Most of those kids are successfully reunited with their families, often with the help of pictures mailed to homes or on milk cartons.

Noah talks with Angie Lowry, an analyst at Klanwatch -- an investigative arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- about the "epidemic of terror" that has swept through 10 Southern states. Crimes against black churches have seen an increase in the last seven years, with fifty-seven incidents of vandalism in that period, and thirty-six cases of arson in the past two years alone. Congress held a hearing today about these fires.

is trying to reduce the risk of new business failures by borrowing from the poultry business. He has set up an 'incubator' center to keep tabs on nearly 20 fledgling companies.

Two reports are being issued today on Gulf War Syndrome. The president's commission on the disease issued its final report, which criticized the Pentagon's investigation of veterans' health complaints. There's also a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is expected to provide new insights into the syndrome. Robert discusses the new reports with NPR's Richard Harris and Martha Raddatz.

Robert talks with Russ Newman, a Visiting Professor at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. They talks about the problems that have sprung from online-service provider America Online's unlimited access plan. The offer caused an unmanageable demand for the company's services...and has led to questions about the future of the Internet as a viable communications medium.

A Justice Department report earlier this week criticizing procedures at the FBI's crime lab could affect prosecutions in the World Trade Center bombing case. Two defendants in the 1993 bombing are awaiting trial and the lead defendant, who has already been convicted, is appealing. The inspector general's report concluded that an examiner from the lab gave ``inaccurate and incomplete testimony'' in the case. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

for survival. 85 percent of the personal computer market belongs to IBM-compatible machines, leaving Apple with a small, loyal base centered on graphics and multimedia users. These users are unlikely to switch systems in the short-term, but will only stay with Apple as long as they can continue to get cutting-edge software.

Linda talks to people who will be effected by changes in the welfare system: Diane Barcy, who lives in public housing in Dayton, Ohio; Robert Rector, senior policy analyst for welfare issues at the Heritage Foundation; Ariela Rodriguez, director of social services at the Little Havana Activites and Nutrition Centers of Dade County; Sharon Daly, Deputy Director of Catholic Charities USA; and Governor John Rowland of Connecticut.

From member station WHYY in Philadelphia, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports that less costly, snortable heroin has given rise to increased use and abuse in some parts of the country. That means an increase in the number of addicts heading to Dr. Guberman's 'Rapid Opiate Detox Center' in Southeast N.J...one of two clinics using a controversial new detox technique.