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NPR's Cheryl Corley visits the Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Illinois. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently filed a major sex harrassment suit against Mitsubishi, charging that female employees had been victims of years of harrassment by male employees. Employees are divided over whether the charges are justified, and the dispute has made life very tense at the plant, one of the largest employers in town.

Scott talks with geologist Mike Warner of London University's Imperial College. Dr. Warner led a team of British scientists to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to study a giant crater created by a meteorite that landed on the earth 65 million years ago. It's believed this meteorite may have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Scott and Weekend Edition sports commentator Ron Rapoport talk about how some young basketball players are leaving college early, and some bypassing college altogether, to play for the National Basketball Association.

The United States continues to complain that China is NOT cracking down on operations that copy computer software, movies and music. NPR's John McChesney reports that the piracy business continues to boom in China, costing American software manufacturers millions in royalties. But counterfeiting operations also are hurting Chinese software businesses, who say they cannot compete with the low priced-software available on the black market.

Chris Arnold reports on Scott Cook and Tom Proulx (PROO), founders of Intuit, the hugely successful creater of home finance computer software. Ten years ago, the company almost went under, but they manaaged to survive by mortgaging their homes, borrowing from their parents' retirement money, and working very long days. Now, they sell "Quicken," the most popular home finance program in the world.

News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that President Clinton of late has spoken of a streamlined--yet effective--government, and has been developing this theme since his State of the Union speech in January.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that Ghana today reluctantly agreed to permit an overcrowded freighter dock and unload more than three thousand people who had fled the fighting in Liberia. For the past ten days several West African nations, including Ghana, had refused to let the Bulk Challenge unload its desperate passengers, many of them hungry and sick. But after pressure from the United Nations and others, Ghana allowed the refugees to disembark today. A new camp will be built for them, but Ghana declared that it will not accept any more refugees.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu is quite struck by Timothy Leary's decision to have his suicide be a live event on the internet.

Barbara Bradley reports on the case of Fauziya Kasinga, the Togolese women who is seeking asylum in the United States to avoid being circumcised as part of a marriage ritual. The case, which goes before the US Board of Immigration Appeals on Thursday, is expected to open the doors for women fearing female genital mutilation.

Mexico and reports on the business of smuggling illegal immigrants from Mexico into the U.S. Crossing the border has grown more difficult in the past few years... causing smugglers to drastically raise their prices. The U.S. is preparing to tighten security at the border even more in response to incidents of the past month. Yesterday, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a version of an immigration bill that would reinforce the U.S. border patrol and crack down on smuggling.