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SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

Daniel talks to Goeran Carstedt, President of Ikea North America about his company's take on American lifestyles. According to an Ikea report Americans center all their furnishings around the television...which is getting bigger and bigger. By contrast in Ikea's homebase Sweden, people tend to centre their lifestyles around a dining room sets..they talk more and watch T.V. less.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that Palestinian strawberry growers are struggling to export their fruit to foreign purchasers. But an Israeli agricultural company is doing everything it can to keep direct exports from taking place.

Jacki talks to Jean Bach, producer of the documentary film, "A Great Day in Harlem," which tells the story of a famous photograph of 57 jazz musicians taken in front of a Harlem brownstone in 1958. A young novice photographer, Art Kane, put the word out that the jazz musicians in New York City should all show up at a certain corner one summer morning... and the gathering became a jazz family reunion as much as a photo shoot.

Jacki talks to Margerie Rosen about the popualar Lady's Home Journal column "Can this marriage be saved" and her new book.

Maria Hinojosa reports that law enforcement is increasingly relying on the use of informants to catch people suspected of crimes. The problem is that often those informants have criminal records themselves and have been known to lie to law enforcement about what they've discovered, which, in some instances has meant that innocent people have been dragged through criminal proceedings.

CIO - Jacki talks to Michael Kazin - a labor historian at The American University about the AFL-CIO conference that just concluded in Bal Harbour, Florida. At that meeting AFL-CIO leader of 16 years Lane Kirkland was challenged and unionists are hinting at a possible replacement. Kazin discusses the state of the Labor movement and the future of the AFL-CIO.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH MIKE VEECK (VECK), OWNER OF THE ST. PAUL SAINTS MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM, ABOUT THE EFFECT THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STRIKE IS HAVING ON MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. AND SYNDICATED CARTOONIST JEFF McNELLY READS FROM HIS RECENT WORK, A TAKE-OFF OF "CASEY AT THE BAT."

For the past 350 years, the people of New England have held town meetings as a forum to thrash out local issues and vote on them. Some consider these meetings the oldest and purest form of democracy in the United States. But Leda Hartman reports that in New Hampshire, this venerable institution may come to an end if the state legislature passes a law that allows local issues to be resolved by secret ballot.