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Following last week's Supreme Court decision on drug testing Michael talks to Joseph Gfroerer, chief of the National Household survey on drug abuse about the increase in drug use among school-age children.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports on block 37 in Chicago... an empty lot in the middle of the downtown area. The lot waws bulldozed in the 1980s real estate boom, but a planned development was never built. On Friday it was announced that Sears Roebuck is considering building on the site.

Jennifer Ludden from member station WBUR in Boston reports that increasingly new Asian immigrants faced with the prospect of daycare are sending their children back home to China where their grandparents take care of them.

HOST ALEX CHADWICK SPEAKS WITH BBC REPORTER CHARLES SCANLON IN SEOUL, KOREA, WHERE THE SAMPOONG DEPARTMENT STORE COLLAPSED LAST THURSDAY AND PEOPLE ARE STILL TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE.

SIMON/ANCHOVIES: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH DAVID GARRISON, A BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ, ABOUT HIS THEORY ABOUT A STRANGE BIRD ATTACK THAT OCCURRED IN TOWNS AROUND THE MONTEREY BAY IN 1961 AND INSPIRED ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S 'THE BIRDS'.

SIMON/NEIGHBORS: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH ATTORNEY MARK WARDA, AUTHOR OF NEIGHBOR VS. NEIGHBOR: THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF NEIGHBORS IN DISPUTE, PUBLISHED BY SPHINX PUBLISHING IN CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, A BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF NEIGHBORS, INCLUDING 400 TRUE STORIES TAKEN FROM COURT CASES IN EVERY STATE IN THE COUNTRY.

TODAY BEING CANADA DAY, ALEX CHADWICK LOOKS AT A PROBLEM THAT CANADIANS SHARE WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS SOUTH OF THE BORDER - A NATIONAL ANTHEM WHOSE WORDS ARE HARD TO REMEMBER:

HOST ALEX CHADWICK READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.