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The Pentagon announced today that NATO peacekeeping troops in Bosnia have been put on the highest state of alert because of fears of a possible terrorist attack. Noah talks to NPR's Martha Raddatz about the reasons for the alert and the vulnerability of NATO bases in Bosnia.

In the first criminal action taken against a government official in the Ruby Ridge case, a senior FBI agent was charged today with obstruction of justice. In 1992, FBI agents shot and killed the wife and child of a white separatist during a siege of his home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. There are reports that the agent charged today may have agreed to co-operate with prosecutors in their investigation of government action during the siege. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports.

A former White House employee has told Senate investigators that she informed ex-personnel security chief Craig Livingstone that FBI background files were being gathered on former presidential aides. That's contrary to testimony from Livingstone. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Scott talks with retiring U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas.

Linda and Noah discuss the opening of the thirty-sixth Republican National Convention in San Diego, California. Republicans are hoping that this meeting will showcase their ideas and their candidates...and can help jump-start the Dole campaign. Patrick Buchanan's withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Dole earlier today has helped pave the way for a greater party unity...which is what the convention is hoping to accomplish.

Scott talks to Weekend Edition's gardening afficionado, Ketzel Levine (KET-zul luh-VEEN) about gardening tool design and the health hazards of horticulture. Guest Bonnie Lee Appleton, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Virginia Tech University and Extension Nursery Specialist at the Hampton Roads Acriculture Experiment Station, joins the discussion.

Daniel speaks with Jeanie Mahoney about an electronic pendant she wears as protection against her former husband who used to abuse her. Mahoney and other women across the country have been given these pendants by police. If they push a small button located on the pendant, the police are alerted to go immediately to the wearer's home.

An American businessman was gunned down in Moscow today near the upscale hotel he'd been fighting to manage. NPR's Andy Bowers reports on Paul Tatum and the message his murder gives to other Americans doing business in Russia.

Three articles in the current Journal of the American Medical Association underscore how research results can be a double edged sword. Two papers suggest that taking estrogen replacement therapy increases bone mass, and therefor prevents bone fractures later in life. But one other paper points out that women with increased bone mass are at greater risk for developing breast cancer. NPR's Joanne Silberner explores these apprently conflicting results.

Noah talks with Fred Davis, computer consultant and author of "Windows '95 Bible", about a federal court ruling that will allow America on Line to block junk e-mail from being sent to its subscribers. Many AOL customers complained about getting ads in their electronic mailboxes. In the case of on-line junk mail you are essentially paying for it, whereas junk mail through the postal system is free.