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NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that UN and Iraqi negotiators are moving closer to allowing Iraq to sell $4 billion in annual oil exports, so that the country can buy limited amounts of food. The two sides have outlined the remaining obstacles, and now it's up to Saddam Hussein to decide how to proceed.

Adam Hochberg reports on the candidacy of former stock car racer Richard Petty. Petty is running on the Republican ticket for Secretary of State for North Carolina. Republicans are hopeful that a Petty victory could mean that North Carolina will become a more Republican state. Democrats would like to see the position of State Secretary abolished before election time.

This is the time of year when the number of illegal border crossings increase dramatically. While beefed up patrols appear to have reduced crossings in some areas, many Mexican are simply finding other points of entry. NPR's David Welna reports on how thousands have pulled down fences and rushed the border near Douglas, Arizona.

of eight Serb soldiers by the Bosnian government.

Landmark legislation was approved last year guaranteeing them equal access to education and employment, but the government has no money to implement the law.

In the second part of our series on the income gap, NPR's Margot Adler reports on the debate over the relationship between technology and income disparity in the United States. Economists generally believe that technological innovation is good for the economy, good for jobs, and, in the long-run, good for our overall standard of living. But economists are also coming to the conclusion that modern technology is adding to the already significant income gap between rich and poor in this country.

Robert talks with Mary Lefkowitz, the Andrew Mellon professor of Humanities at Wellesley College, about her book "Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History." She contests the theory that many of the outstanding features of ancient Greece originated in ancient Egypt. Lefkowitz says the theory stems from an 18th century french novel.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Russian President Yeltsin has declared the end of the hostage crisis in southern Russia. Nine days ago, Chechen rebels took a hundred people hostage. Today, Yeltsin claimed all the rebel Chechens are dead and most of the hostages have been rescued.

Robert talks with Chris Haddenfield, an editor at Golf Digest magazine. Haddenfield has just returned from visiting the movie set of "Tin Cup," a golf comedy starring Kevin Kostner. Haddenfield also talks about "Follow the Sun," a 1950s film about golf legend Ben Hogan, which was just re-released. And why are there so many golf movies in production right now?

NPR'S ERIC WEINER REPORTS ON THE UPCOMING PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS -- THE FIRST-EVER DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS FOR PALESTINIANS ON THEIR TERRITORY.