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Both are within an hour's drive of each other, but their differences reflect the growing divisions in Israeli society. Jerusalem is the ancient holy city, home to many orthodox and nationalists...secular Tel Aviv is relatively new, and a bustling business center.

Deborah talks with David Snowdon, the principal investigator in a study which was carried out by the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky. The study found a correlation between strokes and Alzheimer's Disease. It examined individuals who had experienced small strokes, and found that the brain tissue in these people bears a striking similarity to the appearance of brain matter in individuals suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. The researchers are now investigating whether small strokes are the actual cause of the mental devastation believed to be caused by Alzheimer's.

Commentator David Brooks has some thoughts about Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole's media bashing -- he thinks there is validity to Mr. Dole's claims that the media is liberal. A recent poll from the Roper Center found that 89% of national reporters voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. However, Brooks doesn't think that a liberal press corps kills a Republican campaign...obsessing about it does.

President Nixon called for an "all-out assault" on one of the country's most vicious diseases: cancer. Danny talks with Dr. Vincent Devita, former head of the National Cancer Institute and current director of the Yale University's Cancer Center, about progress made against the disease over the past 25 years.

Many of choreographer George Balanchine's important early works are still alive in the memory of dancers who are growing older. One of those dancers is Maria Tallchief, for whom Balanchine choreographed some of his greatest works. Now 71, Tallchief is coaching younger dancers in these roles. This Sunday Tallchief receives an award from the Kennedy Center for her lifetime achievements in dance. Jean Battey Lewis reports.

NPR'S Linda Gradstein reports that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has called for a general strike tomorrow to protest what he said was Israel's declaration of war agains the Palestinians. Arafat's strike call comes after Israel demolished a Palestinian youth center in East Jerusalem. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would regard with severity any attempt to escalate tensions or violence.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Texas State Senator Teel Bivens and Professor George Edwards, Director of the Center for Presidential Studies at Texas A&M, about the prospect of Texas Governor George W. Bush appointing Democrats to his Cabinet. Both men have worked extensively with Bush and say that the governor's bipartisan record in Texas will continue. Some past presidents have crossed party lines with Cabinet appointments, but it hasn't always guaranteed legislative bipartisanship.

Modern medical centers are linked by computer networks. Doctors use them to order prescriptions, to monitor patients' vital signs from afar and to send the bill. So what happens when the computers crash? NPR's Richard Knox reports on one such occurrence in Boston, which serves as a lesson to health care providers. (5:15)

A new poll by The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press shows that around the world -- and especially in Muslim nations -- there's been a marked negative shift in peoples' opinion of the United States. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports, and NPR's Lynn Neary and NPR's Jacki Lyden discuss the poll results with Pew director Andrew Kohut.

A new study suggests autism is more common among U.S. children than previously thought. A Centers for Disease Control study finds the rate may be 10 times the rate reported in earlier studies. NPR's Michele Norris talks with the report's lead author, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsop.