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NPR's Adam Hochberg reports that investigators in the Florida Everglades began recovering larger parts of the ill-fated ValuJet flight 592, including both engines and two tires. On the fifth day after the crash that killed 110 people, NTSB officials were also looking into tracking the oxygen generators being transported on the plane which are suspected of playing a key role in the accident.

Since the Oklahoma City bombing, the American public has become more informed about right-wing miltia groups. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that over the past year many militia members have shifted their efforts towards challenging local government's right to enact laws.

The future of Jerusalem and Jewish settlement on the West Bank was one of the most difficult issues faced today in Taba Egypt at the peace talks between Israel and Palestine. The talks entered their final phase today, as NPR's Eric Weiner reports.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports on the move to give asylum to female refugees who fear that they will be subject to sexual violence or female circumcision if they are forced to return home. The US has adopted guidelines allowing such asylums, but critics say they are not rigorously enforced.

Robert Siegel gets reactions from the states about Clinton's welfare proposals. He speaks with William Grinker, former head of New York City's social services, and Penelope Clarke, director of Sacramento county department of human resources.

- We hear a reading of a work by Joseph Mitchell who died yesterday at age 87. As a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, Mitchell described the vivid characters he met in the working class neighborhoods of New York City during the depression years.

NPR'S MARGOT ADLER REPORTS ON THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF WORLD AFFAIRS AT COLORADO UNIVERSITY, A VENERABLE BUT QUIRKY GATHERING OF ARTISTS, POLICY WONKS, SCIENTISTS AND WRITERS WHO HAVE BEEN GATHERING IN BOULDER SINCE 1948 TO DISCUSS SEX, ROCK AND ROLL AND THE STATE OF THE PLANET.

AN ESSAY BY SCOTT ON THE POLITICS AND PREFERENCES OF REPORTERS.

on secretaries who have abusive bosses and what they can do to defend themselves.

Commentator Marianne Jennings says this is the season when CEO salaries are made public, and while some say they are getting rewarded for a job well done, if you are a shareholder or a laid off employee, you may not agree.