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Linda Wertheimer speaks with Mahmoud El-Sharif (makh-MOOD ell shah-REEF), Jordanian political analyst and founder of the newspaper Ad-Dusdur (AHD DOOS doohr) News. He says that while Jordan regards the Israeli election as an internal Israeli affair, there is disappointment and confusion among those who support the peace process in Jordan. He believes that if the Netanyahu government adheres to the policies touted by Likud in the election campaign, the peace process is effectively over.

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Noah talks with Allyson Atchley, a staff member of the 69th annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. Atchley helps bee participants when they misspell a word. Students have the option of retreating to a "comfort room" where they are offered cookies and punch and a dictionary to look up the word they misspelled. Atchley chats with them and tries to make them feel better if they are upset.

NPR's Murray Horwitz has a remembrance of Jerry King-- the founder of the King Charles Troupe-- a daring and funny circus act-- featuring unicyclists playing basketball while riding their cycles. Mr. King died this week in New York City.

Scott speaks with Professor Brian Gardiner, a paleontolgist at King's College, London. Prof. Gardiner says he knows who perpetrated the hoax of 1912, the Piltdown Man, thought to have been the "Missing Link."

Commentator Alan Cheuse reviews a new political novel called Sounding the Waters by James Glickman. It's the story of a midwestern veteran politician who runs for the Senate, and the book is complete with descriptions of all the dirty tricks that occur during a hotly contested political race. (Glickman's book is published by Crown, this year.)

Linda speaks with E. Ethelbert Miller, editor of a new anthology called "In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry." The anthology includes works by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, and Rita Dove, among others. The book covers a wide range of topics - from race and identity, to basketball, jazz, and history. (Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1996)

President Clinton had a news conference with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Milwaukee today, but reporters mainly wanted to ask about domestic issues. Specifically, they took Mr. Clinton through a list of issues on which Republicans say he has switched sides to win votes. NPR's Mara Liasson reports on the president's vehement denials that he has flip-flopped on welfare, the gas tax, gay marriages and Cuba policy.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that physicists have created an experiment to explore one of the great paradoxes of modern physics. The conundrum, known as the Schrodinger's cat paradox, puzzled Einstein and other great modern physicists. Now, scientists have created a physical example of the paradox, which seemingly puts one atom in two places at the same time.

KENNEDY - Presidential politics have stalled legislation aimed at guaranteeing that workers can keep their health coverage when they lose or leave jobs. The fight is over a controversial provision that would allow workers to create medical savings accounts instead of insurance. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.