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Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, answers listener questions on the infection rates, death toll, and what they mean going forward.

Linda speaks with former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm. He is currently the director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues at the University of Denver and supports running a third party candidate for President under the banner of the Reform Party. He feels neither the Republicans nor the Democrats are facing the most serious issue before Americans today: how to cut back the middle class entitlements of Social Security and Medicare as the baby boom generation ages.

- Daniel talks with New York University Professor Frederick Karl about recent allegations that the Unabomber might have been inspired by the works of Joseph Conrad. Conrad's book, "The Secret Agent" centers around a professor who tries to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in England to protest scientific and technological advancement. Karl says the themes in Conrad's book were typical during the turn of the century because of the political and social climate.

with the American Legion, about the findings of the Presidential advisory committee. They will also discuss the results of a telephone survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control among Iowa veterans of the Gulf War, whose results are scheduled for release today.

Robert talks to George Hedges, who has just returned from a trek across the southern Arabian peninsula -- following the route described by the likes of Pliny (PLIH-nee) the Elder and Ptolemy (TAWL-uh-mee), along which frankincense was traded. With the help of contemporary LANDSAT photographs, Hedges says his party discovered forts and trading centers along the ancient route, and a huge megalith that resembles Stonehenge. This is the first time archaeologists have studied this part of the world.

NPR's David Baron reports that the Department of Health and Human Services completes three days of hearings on the way that donated livers are distributed for transplants. There are deep disagreements among health care professionals and the people who need transplants about the way these organs are allocated, and some critics allege that the centers that perform liver transplant procedures are making profit their number-one priority, rather than life-saving.

In this segement Robert Siegel talks to Michael Stanislawski - a professor at Columbia University and associate director for the Center for Israel and Jewish Studies. He thinks the notion that the head of the Jewish Studies department at Queens college must be Jewish is thoroughly wrong. He sites Brown University as having had a non-Jew who led the Jewish studies program there very successfully.

Patrick Buchanan spoke last night at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, California. He never used Bob Dole's name in his speech, yet he spoke of the divided Republican party needing a truce, to unite in its effort to defeat President Clinton. He also addressed how the Republican party is increasingly reflecting the ideas he espouses, even while not allowing him to speak at the convention. We hear an excerpt from his speech.

Several female soldiers say Army investigators coerced them into going along with charges that they were raped by drill sergeants at Maryland's Aberdeen training center. Now the female soldiers say they had consensual sex with their trainers. They say investigators threatened to interfere with their progress in the Army if they did not make statements against the accused sergeants. NPR's Phillip Davis reports that the women were presented to reporters by the NAACP. Officials of the group say the women's latest statements put the Army's investigation into question.

A rash of letter-bombs, suspected to be of Middle Eastern origin, have been delivered around the nation including deliveries to an Arab newspaper office in Washington and the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. NPR's Ted Clark reports that the FBI is investigating the incidents as a law enforcement matter, but the world-wide intelligence capabilities of the U.S. government's inter-departmental Counter-Terrorist Center are also being mobilized. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the mystery letter-bombs.