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Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.

-- this time in Catholic areas. Three police officers were shot and injured by rioters in a staunch IRA neighborhood of North Belfast.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that for the first time scientists have identified a gene that is involved in a particular kind of thinking. In tomorrow's issue of the journal Cell, researchers report that they identified a gene that appears to play a role in the ability to envision things in three dimensions.

Commentator Susan Aaronson (AIR-un-sun) says that too often, reporters use inflammatory language or dramatic metaphors to explain economic situations...phrases such as "trade war," in describing our relationship with China, are misleading and inaccurate.

Linda talks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold about this week's developments in the presidential campaign, including the announcement by former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm that he would run for the Reform Party nomination and billionaire Ross Perot's statements about his plans to run. They'll also talk about the controversy over Bob Dole's decision not to address the annual convention of the NAACP and President Clinton's appearance before the civil rights group.

Commentator Frederica Matthewes-Green (fred-REE-kah MATH-yooz GREEN) works at home, but she misses the office -- the daily flow of human interaction among colleagues. So she has joined an on-line group where they regularly enjoy jokes, recipes, memories, and dreams: the skin contact of cyberspace. It isn't like sharing stories with a buddy over the coffeemaker, she says, But it's not like sitting in rush hour traffic, either.

- Daniel speaks with Thomas Hanley, one of the defense attornies for Bosian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. Hanley argues the international war crimes tribunal in the Hague, which has indicted Karadzic as a war criminal and issued a warrent for his arrest, is denying his client due process of law and a fair trail.

- NPR's David Welna reports on the swirl of scandal surrounding Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Charges are being leveled that Zedillo, before he became president, was involved in a case involving suspected corruption.

the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been under negotiation for more than two years...

accused of hiding large cash withdrawals to the Clinton gubernatorial campaign in 1990.