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Commentator Steven Madden trekked around Mt. Everest last year, narrowly missing an encounter with an avalanche which swept down the mountain and wiped out their base camp. Madden says he never expected to be rescued, nor should any climber. This is the first rule of wilderness travel. But the rule was written before cellular phones and helicopters.

Jackie talks to clinical sports psychologist Dr. James Milhouse, and national wrestling champion, Rodney Smith about the use of mental training in preparing athletes for competing in the uppcoming Olympic games. Milhouse has provided mental training for Smith's entire army wrestling team. They both feel winners in sports are usually determined by who has the best mental preparation, especially in competitions such as the Olympics which include only elite athletes.

Noah talks with Chuck Culpepper, a sports columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader, about Rick Pitino's decision to keep his job as the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's basketball team. Pitino had been offered a five-year, thirty million dollar deal with the New Jersey Nets, which would have made him the head coach of that team, as well as the director of basketball operations. Culpepper claims that Pitino's reluctance to move comes as no surprise, even though Pitino hails from the New York-New Jersey area, and the deal would have included partial ownership of the Nets. Pitino has claimed that he likes the sense of community that Lexington provides, as opposed to the center-less sprawl of the New Jersey suburbs.

On the eve of Saturday's "Stand For Children" march in Washington DC, NPR's Margot Adler looks at some of the issues underlying the discussion about how to best address children's issues in this country. While the march has been billed as a non-partisan event based on an issue everyone would seem to support--children's welfare--in fact, our country has always been deeply conflicted about our attitudes toward children. Children's issues usually end up being intertwined with our attitudes toward their parents, and thus our disagreements over race, class and government have a lot to do with the way children are raised in this country.

Commentator David Brooks says he won't be attending the Stand For Children rally because he thinks that the event is not really for children, but more an opportunity for emotional manipulation.

Commentator David Crystal says this is an age of abbreviations. The most common abbreviation is the use of the first initials of each word - like NPR - but there are many others.

COMMENTARY.......GERALD EARLY takes a look at the new movie, "Great White Hype".

Bob Dole, as everyone knows, is trying to attain the presidency...in more ways than one. As commentator Bob Garfield reports, Senator Dole has a bit of difficulty pronouncing the very name of the office he seeks.

Film editor and sound designer WALTER MURCH. He won an Academy Award for sound design for "Apolcolypse Now." Some of the films he's edited and/or mixed are "The Conversation," "American Graffiti," "Apocalypse Now," "The Godfather (II, and III)"and "Crumb." He's written a new book about his work, "In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing," (Silman-James Press, L.A.)REV 2: TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Saturday Night Live's new late-night comedy show competitor: Saturday Night Special on FOX.REV 3: Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "I Feel Alright" (Warner Bros) the latest release by country-rock artist Steve Earle.

at ending the rocket attacks which Hezbollah has launched from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. During the past 48 hours, Secretary of State Warren Christopher has spoken by telephone with the Prime Ministers of Lebanon and Israel, and the Foreign Minister of Syria.