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NPR's Mike Shuster reports that there has been no serious bloodshed since yesterday's coup in Burundi. The coup has been roundly condemned by the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity and the United States. But so far, no concrete steps have been taken against the country's new leaders.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went before a joint session of Congress to reaffirm his tough new stand on the Middle East process, underlining his differences with the land-for-peace approach embraced by the Clinton Administration.

NPR'S Richard Harris reports that researchers have found new evidence that spring has been arriving in the Northern Hemisphere earlier since the 1970s. New research suggests that spring now arrives about seven days earlier than it did 20 years ago, and that could be a sign of global warming.

Linda talks to NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson about the decision President Clinton is making on whether to sign or veto the welfare reform bill.

Earlier this week, television network representives met at the White House and agreed to a proposal to broadcast three hours of quality T.V. fare for children. Former network correspondent Linda Ellerbee has been producing programs for children for several years. She tells Linda that this agreement is an effort to make television for children better.

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More Americans are relying on investments to help them buy a house or to pay the college bills...but most investors can't even distinguish between different kinds of mutual funds. As NPR's Elaine Korry reports, that makes for a rich climate for rogue brokers...and it makes it important for investors to investigate the person who's handling their money.

Commentator Marianne Jennings has the real scoop on consultants...they are either people who have been down-sized...who advise that a company grow, or out-of-work MBAs who set up shop in weird places and get contracts with the same companies who wouldn't hire them. Usually they advise the opposite of whatever the company is doing.

A dispute between New York and New Jersey over who should own historic Ellis Island has gone to trial in the Supreme Court. This is not an appeal. It's the original trial. Border disputes like this one are heard by the Supreme Court, although it doesn't happen very often. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that the justices have assigned a legal expert called a special master to hear the case. The justices will make their ruling based on his report.

back in the Likud government as minister of national infrastructure, is planning a second trans-Samaria highway to link Jewish settlements in the West Bank -- a move that could seriously damage the peace process.