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NPR's Deborah Wang reports from Nepal on elephant polo, sport of the adventure-travel elite. In this year's International Elephant Polo Championships, the American team continued its dubious record as annual last-place finishers.

Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University MARY JO WEAVER. Her previous book is "Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today," (Beacon) about women who are Catholic and feminist. Her book, "New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority," (Indiana University Press) has a new 10th anniversary edition. WEAVER's latest book (edited with R. Scott Appleby) "Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America" is a collection of essays (Indiana University Press).

Senior Editor at National Review, RICHARD BROOKHISER. Recently the conservative magazine has come out in favor of some kind of drug legalization. BROOKHISER is also a columnist for The New York Observor.

that injured an Alabama priest on Monday may have been intended for his neighbor, a retired Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent. Part of a note referring to an ATF conspiracy was found at the bomb sight.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from Sarajevo about life along the front line. The Bosnian government and Bosnian Serbs have pulled back their troops, and French peace-keepers have moved into position to create a buffer zone between the two warring groups. For the first time in nearly four years, the neighborhoods along the trenches are quiet.

ETHAN NADELMANN, Director of The Lindesmith Center, a research center devoted to broadening the debate on drug policy, and looking at stratgies that have been overlooked or ignored. (The Lindesmith Center is located in New York City, 212-887-0695) INT 3:Health care analyst and substance abuse expert JOSEPH CALIFANO. He was LBJ's assistant for domestic affairs from 1959-65 and Secretary for Health, Education and Welfare under Jimmy Carter from 1977-79. JOSEPH CALIFANO is also president of the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a research and experimental care facility at Columbia University.

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NPR's Brian Naylor reports that Congress is expected to approve today a measure that would send some 280-thousand furloughed federal employees back to work next week. They and another 500-thousand federal workers who have been on the job without pay since December 16 would receive back wages. However, most of the agencies they work for would remain closed. The plan was agreed to by House Republicans who last night rejected a broader back-to-work proposals. The plan would also fund for the rest of the fiscal year other programs, including Aid to Families with Dependent Children.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "12 Monkeys"

WEEKEND EDITION ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL BEMOANS THE LACK OF STRONG STORY LINES IN MOVIES.