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Mark Melman about public sentiment regarding current campaign finance scandals. Melman is the CEO of the Melman Group, a political polling and consulting firm for democrats. He has been conducting focus groups to learn how people feel about politics and money, and why. He says that people used to have confidence in the own member of congress - while feeling the system was broken. Now it turns out a large majority feel even their own member of congress is very affected by special interest contributions.

after Scottish scientists announced over the weekend that they'd successfully cloned a sheep. The future of the process is in question. It appears that it would work on other animals, possibly even humans, but most see that as unethical and unacceptable. But researchers say the development could provide valuable information for human health and diseases.

In the last installment in our drug prevention series, NPR's Vicky Que (KWAY) talks to school administrators and educational experts about marketing the good -- or at least, effective -- prevention programs to get more of them into more of the nation's schools. There are thousands of school districts, but only a few hundred have effective drug education programs.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the birth of Charles Mingus. As an instrumentalist, he became known as "the Segovia of the bass" and championed the unwieldy instrument as a solo voice in jazz groups. He became one of the first bassists to lead his own group. But perhaps he made his greatest mark as a composer. He was inspired by Ellington and carried that great composer's ideas to new levels in the nearly 300 works Mingus left behind. Karen Michel (mih-SHELL) has this report on the life and music of one of America's true jazz innovators. (8:00) ((ST

Storyteller Carmen Deedy explores the unexpected in "Twisting in the Wind of Semantics," a story about how a small miscommunication between herself and her mother lead to chaos.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director of the Christian Coalition, today announced his resignation... to assume a new challenge. Under his leadership, Conservative Christians have begun to play a more direct role in American politics. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on Reed's legacy and on the impact of his decision.

this week, to ask the U.S. to include his country in NAFTA. President Clinton supports the idea, but many Democrats would rather not expand the free trade agreement.

that the level of the Red River has dropped slightly. While sandbagging and dike patrols continue, residents are hopeful that the worst has passed and clean-up can soon begin.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the US military's plans to evacuate American citizens from Zaire if that country's civil war reaches the capital, Kinshasa. About a hundred and fifty American troops are in Brazzaville, the capital of neighboring Congo, just across the Zaire river from Kinshasa. Another two thousand are on the U-S-S Nassau, an ambphibious assault ship stationed off Zaire's coast. If an order to evacuate is given, the American forces are ready to move into Kinshasa with attack helicopters to evacuate the roughly five hundred U-S citizens there.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports that since the Oklahoma City bombing, American militia groups have expanded their ranks, and their activity. That growth is fueling fears that the groups may be expressing their beliefs in increasingly violent ways.