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Karen Brown reports from Holyoke, Massachusetts on car clubs for young men. Members supe up their vehicles with accessories like impressive stereo systems, seventeen inch rims, leather interiors, and high-end performance parts. Clubs often take on extra jobs to pay for these modifications, and they compete in car shows. The clubs help to get some men off the streets, and have gained a certain degree of respectability in the city.

Barbara Plett reports for the BBC that Bashar al-Assad officially becomes president of Syria today. Al-Assad takes the oath before parliament as president of Syria after winning an overwhelming vote in a nationwide referendum to take over the post held by his late father Hafez for 30 years.

Phil Mercer reports from Suva, on the latest developments in Fiji. George Speight, the rebel leader who led a two-month hostage crisis that paralyzed the ethnically divided nation, promised further unrest after he rejected a Cabinet named by Fiji's new president.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Yuli Tamir, Israel's Minister for Immigrant Absorption, about the Israeli negotiating position at the current peace talks at Camp David. She says an agreement is possible, if Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is as committed to peace as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Pippin Ross reports on the latest trend in welfare reform...getting fathers to take an active part in their children's lives. Most of these men's father's weren't around for them, and they need extra support in an effort to break the cycle. States are trying a number of programs, including parenting classes, rent subsidies, and legal services.

NPR's Elaine Korry reports on the effects of the recent economic downturn in Silicon Valley -- where money that was made fast is money that disappears quickly too. Some of the people who made millions in high-tech start-up companies have watched their fortunes vanish, as stock prices have fallen since March.

Elizabeth Stawicki of Minnesota Public Radio reports on the new working farm exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo, which tries to give visitors an accurate portrayal of how farm animals live and die and about the food and fiber they produce.

NPR's Richard Harris has the story on a forthcoming report which indicates that the wobble in the Earth's rotation might be caused by water.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports on the meeting in Beijing between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Today, both leaders signed a joint statement opposing U.S. plans to build missile shields over North America and Asia.

Computers are a central part of most businesses. But doctors still tend to rely on paper records and charts to keep track of patients. NPR's Larry Abramson reports that most physicians are resisting efforts to get them to computerize patient information.