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Ron Howard's new suspense thriller starring Mel Gibson is expected to be a box office hit. But it's not without its problems, says our critic Bob Mondello.

could soon be used to help Alzheimer's patients...a disease that causes irreversible memory loss in about five million people. The new drug was designed in a laboratory, and it's been shown to improve memory in rats and now in humans.

to China this week. Over the last two years, the Clinton administration has placed less emphasis on human rights, in an effort to improve relations. Among other topics important to the U.S. are: trade, arms proliferation, the future of Taiwan, and the change in Hong Kong.

He developed a new line of stories for Batman aimed at helping children in war-torn countries learn the dangers of landmines that are used so indiscriminately around the globe.

will react to the new Bosnian mandate.

The government has charged a veteran CIA agent with spying for Russia over the past two years. The suspect is Harold Nicholson, who has served as a station chief abroad and as a trainer of new agents... but most recently worked in counterterrorism at CIA headquarters. The US Attorney in charge of the case says Nicholson was motivated by greed, not ideology. He is accused of selling Russia information in exchange for more than 100-thousand dollars. The FBI says Nicholson may have revealed to the Russians the identities of all new CIA agents trained during the last two years. NPR's Martha Raddatz has a report.

NPR's Mandalit DelBarco talks to high school students and admissions officials at the University of California system, which has dumped its affirmative action program, or at least the parts of it that gave special status to applicants based on race, ethnicity or gender.

is causing problems for local telephone companies, and their customers. The telephone networks were designed for relatively short voice communication, not the lengthy data transfers common on the internet. The local phone companies have complained to the FCC that the internet access providers should be treated just like long-distance carriers.

and won't hear any criticism of them.

the former Soviet Central Asia for business and political influence. Trying to sidestep the US-inspired trade boycott, Iran is building a railroad into the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan in an effort to channel trade from the region through its Persian Gulf ports.