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Daniel speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers in Zagreb, Croatia about the latest developments in Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs are alleging that a number of civilians died when UN artillery fire hit a hospital near Sarajevo. Meanwhile, NATO airstrikes against Serb positions continued.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists are looking into an ancient mystery...trying to determine what caused 80 percent of all plant and animal life on earth to vanish in an episode that pre-dated the dinosaurs.

Julia Haybell reports on an American invasion of Great Britain...an invasion of frogs that is. American Bullfrog tadpoles, which were inadvertantly transported in a shipment of aquatic plants, have escaped into the wild and have grown up into big American bullfrogs which are eating the smaller British variety.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SINGER FONTELLA BASS ABOUT HER NEW CD "NO WAYS TIRED" ON NONESUCH RECORDS (9-79357-2), HER FIRST RELEASE IN DECADES, AND ABOUT HER CAREER SINCE HER 1965 HIT "RESCUE ME."

A recent United Nations report on the world wide status of women ranks Sweden number one in terms of women's equality. Last year the Swedish Prime Minister decided that half of Sweden's parliament and half of Sweden's cabinet should be female and so many men were forced to resign. Daniel talks to the deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Mona Sahlin who is also the minister of equality affairs.

Daniel goes for a walk in the Virginia woods with USDA entomologist Dave Nickel to listen to the sounds of a summer night. Nickel says there is an incredible array of crickets, katydids, and cicadas, all contributing to the nighttime natural symphony we hear during the hot weather.

Senegalese musician Vieux Diop spent his childhood listening to all kinds of music, but his favorite was American blues. Now, Diop lives in New York and travels to schools teaching kids about traditional African music. He joins us in our studios to play one of his instruments.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH NORMAN ORNSTEIN, RESIDENT SCHOLAR AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, AND THOMAS MANN, SENIOR FELLOW AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION, ABOUT THE MEDICARE AND WELFARE BILLS, BOTH OF WHICH WERE DEBATED IN CONGRESS THIS WEEK.

IN LIGHT OF ACTS COMMITTED AND DOCUMENTED BY THE LIKES OF SENATOR ROBERT PACKOOD, DETECTIVE MARK FUHRMAN AND RICHARD NIXON, SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JERROLD POST, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY - SPECIALIZING IN THE STUDY OF PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR IN WORLD LEADERS - AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., AND ASKS THE QUESTION...WHY WOULD SOMEONE KNOWINGLY CREATE A RECORD OF HIS OWN INDISCRETIONS?

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT SPIKE LEE'S NEW MOVIE "CLOCKERS."