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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports..Majority Leader Bob Dole acknowleges that he trails President Clinton by a wide margin among female voters. But Dole says the gender gap is merely a perception problem and his plan to address it is to emphasize his legislative record.

Commentator Frederica Matthews-Green reflects on the phenomenon of everyday people who demonstrate deep faith. She tells the story of Michael, a local plumber and fellow member of a small Eastern Orthodox congregation, who recently went off to become a monk. As the congregation tearfully sent him off, Matthews-Green noted the extraordinary number of people like Michael who live lives of faithful devotion. Negative images of religious people in the media are unfair stereotype, she says, because most deeply religious people are just like the rest of us, and Michael.

Susan speaks with medical economist Brad Kirkman-Liff about how medicare compares with other world programs.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on a new genetic test for breast cancer. But medical ethicists, doctors and patients are struggling with its implications.

Susan talks with Princeton University Creative Writing Teacher and novelist Elizabeth Benedict about her book "The Joy of Writing Sex -- designed to help the serious author write better sex scenes.

A house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1940 is re-opened today a year after it closed for renovations and on the birthday of Wright, who was born 129 years ago.

Robert Siegel talks with Alan Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, about his parody of practitioners of "science studies." He tells how he deliberately wrote an article questioning the validity of measuring physical "reality" using nonsensical phrases, and submitted it to a well-respected academic journal. The editors published it as a serious treatise, not realizing it was written as a joke. (Sokal's article, "A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies," appeared in the May/June 1996 issue of Lingua Franca.

the new labor initiative with a well-coordinated counterattack. They plan to label the campaign as an attempt by Washington union bosses to tell rank and file members what to do in an effort to enhance the union leadership's power. The GOP has filed complaints about union spending with the Federal Election Commission, but the law governing such independent expenditures is murky. Peter Overby reports.

Today is Cinco de Mayo, a day of celebration for Mexican-Americans, and among the foods found at fiestas today is a dish called menudo, which is prepared from tripe. Tripe is the inner lining of a cow's stomach. NPR's Ina Jaffe sent us this report about a California company that manufactures menudo in a can.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports...republicans on capitol hill are sturggling to come up with a way to pay for the temporary gas tax repeal they want to vote into law. And democrats want to make sure consumers get the benefits of any tax cut. Democrats also are trying to come up with a way to bring to a vote..legislation to raise the minimum wage.