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NPR'S MELISSA BLOCK PROFILES ROSE HAMBURGER. FOR NEARLY NINE DECADES, MS. HAMBURGER HAS BEEN PICKING HORSES IN RACES. NOW, AT THE AGE OF 105, SHE DOES IT FOR THE NEW YORK POST.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that America's role in bringing about a ceasefire in Lebanon teaches us that multilateral diplomacy is on the wane, and big stick diplomacy is in. It is the world's superpower, the U.S., Gjelten says, that other nations turn to when they want diplomatic assistance.

Last week, as Israeli newspaper revealed a series of clandestine meetings between Israelis and Palestinians. Robert Siegel talks with one of the settler leaders in Gaza and the West Bank, Yisrael Harel, who says that the newspaper story was a leak from Prime Minister Shimon Peres's office. Harel and two others took part is secret meetings with Palestinians.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH NPR'S HOWARD BERKES ON THE CASE BUILDING UP AGAINST THEODORE KACZYNSKI, THE MAN SUSPECTED OF BEING THE UNABOMBER.

Neal speaks with Joseph Nocera, contributing editor at Fortune Magazine, about the New York Yankees. The owner is threatening to move the venerable baseball franchise out of the City. The City is trying desperately to keep that from happening.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on the six year old boy in California who has been charged with attempted murder in the near beating death of a one month old baby. Authorities aren't yet releasing the boy's name but they say he's the youngest person ever to be charged with a felony.

A profile of Tracy Nelson, the great blues and gospel singer - and the former leader of the San Francisco sixties band - Mother Earth. Her most famous song she authored "Down So Low." Nelson has a new album out called I FEEL SO GOOD - and while Nelson says she doesn't give a hoot about success - her new album has been doing well. Susan Armistead visited Nelson at her home in the woods outside Nashville and filed this profile. (8:30) [The album is I FEEL SO GOOD / ROUNDER RECORDS] (IN S

proposal today for reforming private pension plans. It's intended to encourage more small employers to offer retirement plans to their workers and to make it easier for workers to take their pension plans with them when they change jobs.

a week-old cease-fire continues... This past week, diplomats from the U-S traveled to Liberia to urge faction leaders to restrain their teen-aged fighters. They hope to revive a peace process which had ended more than six years of civil war.

This past week, the Senate passed it's version of the Health Care Reform bill. It includes a measure that would require insurance companies to cover mental health costs in a manner comparable to coverage of physical health care. The measure attempts to remedy what activist groups claim is discrimination against people with mental health disabilities. Daniel speaks with Shelley Jackson who is a staff attorney at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. She says there are widespread instances of discrimination against people with mental health disabilities, particularly in the workplace.