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Film critic Bob Mondello reviews "Cold Comfort Farm" by director John Schlesinger -- a tale of a snippy London observer of rural weirdness.

First time novelist Jane Mendelsohn has written a book titled "I Was Amelia Earhart." Ms Mendelsohn imagines what it would have been like to fly into the night with Earhart's navigator Fred Noonan. The book is published by Alfred Knopf.

Scott and NPR's Daniel Schorr review the weeks news.

Saturday will preside over "Stand for Children" one of the biggest gatherings of child advocacy groups ever the nation's capital.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that Bob Dole's position on the Republican platform's abortion plank has set the stage for a renewed fight this summer at the party's national convention in San Diego. Conservative state party activists are trying to ensure that delegates to the convention are committed to keeping the plank as it is, calling for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. Dole supports that position, but would like to include language recognizing that there are differences within the party on this issue.

An audio postcard from NPR's Melissa Block in New York, who stumbled upon a movie set in New York, without realizing it...

- Tom talks with MIT economist Lester Thurow about the consequences of a growing elderly population in America. Analysts predict the elderly will become a political majority by the year two-thousand twenty-five. Thurow argues that will change the face of American society, from government to business.

- Tom speaks with 74-year old Russell Bonasso who just graduated from West Virginia's Fairmont State College. Bonasso got his bachelor's degree 58 years after he graduated from high school. His educational goals were delayed so he could put his 12 children through college.

- NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists have discovered that fire ants communicate by using sound. Robert Hickling at the University of Mississipi has been recording fire ants in several conditions and has distinguished many sounds that the fire ants make with their bodies.

A divided Supreme Court struck down four redesigned Congressional districts today in Texas and North Carolina. The districts are all predominantly black or Hispanic. The decision continues a trend in the Court since 1993 to disallow electoral districts that were drawn to create racial majorities. In today's ruling, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor reiterated that districts cannot be drawn up with race as the primary criterion, but also said that it does NOT mean that states can never design predominantly minority districts. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.