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Daniel talks to Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-WA, and Pamela Dunn, a former welfare mother, who were partners in a program called Walk a Mile in Your Sister's Shoes, which paired lawmakers with welfare recipients. Pamela Dunn said that she expected a Republican member of Congress to be participating in the program just for appearances but found that Rep. Dunn was very gracious and even changed her position on one issue because of their conversations.

The massive coastal fortresses that served as slave trading posts during the 16th to the 18th centuries have become the backbone of Ghana's tourism industry. Jennifer Ludden reports that for many African Americans, visiting the forts is a highly emotional experience. Some are coming away from the official tours both angry and disappointed by the seemingly casual attitude shown by their Ghanain guides to a painful chapter of their history.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Jerusalem that two months after the Camp David summit broke down without an agreement, Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have met again to talk about peace. The meeting comes as the public debate is both camps has centered on formulas about how authority in East Beirut could be divided, something that was a taboo subject only weeks ago.

All Things Considered Host Noah Adams profiles Olympian David Hearn, eighteen times the U-S national solo whitewater canoe champion. He's in his third Olympics in Australia. He's trained on the Potomac River for twenty-five years. Now, his wife, Jennifer, is one of his coaches. He's 41-years-old, twice the age of many of his competitors. Hearn says that the slalom course imitates a real whitewater river.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that at the heart of the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians is insistence on ruling the tiny, one-mile-square old city of Jerusalem, a site sacred to Jews, Muslims and Christians. Since its conquest of the city in the 1967 war, Israel has ruled the old city insisting that it must remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel. Palestinians are demanding sovereignty over, at least, the areas of old Jerusalem where Arabs are a majority.

Jennifer Griffin reports from Beirut that the people of Lebanon and Northern Israel today enjoyed the quiet of a ceasefire announced yesterday between Israel and Hizbullah. The deal was brokered by Secretary of State Warren Christopher...and ended sixteen days of fighting which killed more than 150 Lebanese and forced thousands of Israelis and hundred of thousands of Lebanese civilians to flee their homes. In Lebanon today, waves of displaced families began returning home to towns and villages in Southern Lebanon.

Noah talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about conditions in the eastern Zairean city of Goma, recently captured by Zairean Tutsi rebels. The rebels escorted foreign journalists into the city today. The city is for the most part calm, though reporters were only allowed to see certain areas. Goma is the site of camps housing hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees; the battle for the city left the refugees cut off from food and medicine.

From the Zairean capital, Kinshasha, NPR's Jennifer Ludden eports on the success of Tutsi rebels in eastern Zaire, who are continuing to ake military gains. Last month, the rebels attacked Rwandan Hutu militia holed p in sprawling refugee camps, forcing more than half a million Hutu to return ome to Rwanda. Now, they say the want to topple the government of Zairean resident Mobutu Sese Seko (moh-BOO-too SAY-see SAY-koh).

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Zaire, which is growing more catastrophic by the day. As the U-S and other nations debate how to mount an emergecy relief operation, reports say more and more wandering refugees are dying every day. More than a million Rwandan refugees--and an unknown number of Zairean citizens -- have been forced to flee fighting between the Zairean army and Rwandan-backed Zairean rebels.

Democrat Jennifer Granholm is Michigan's governor-elect. She'll join a group of newly elected chief executives across the country who face tough times, shaky state economies and dwindling funds. Granholm speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep.