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Tess Vigeland of member station WBUR reports that the Boston Latin School has settled out of court with a family that sued the school to protest a special entrance provision for minority students. As part of the settlement, the city's school board will drop special racial admissions categories for the city's prestigious Boston Latin School, and for two other top schools. The student and her family sued after she was denied admission despite receiving higher test scores than some minority students who were admitted.

You can lose your wallet, you can forget your PINs and passwords, but you can't lose your fingerprints or the sound of your voice. NPR's Dan Charles reports that new technologies are taking advantage of these built-in identifiers to develop fool-proof methods for making sure you are who you say you are. Some critics worry they also make it too easy to invade one's privacy.

The FCC today took the first step in a series of actions commissioners say will eventually save consumers billions of dollars in international telephone fees. Today's order will allow American phone companies to negotiate rates directly with foreign carriers. In the weeks ahead, the FCC is expected to announce another policy change that would limit the fees U.S. companies pay their foreign counterparts. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Current World Chess Champion GARRY KASPAROV. (CASS-par-ov). This past spring in Philadelphia in a well publisized match, Kasparov beat IBM's Deep Blue, which was considered the most competitve chess computer to date. Kasparov recently has been promoting chess as a learning tool in schools. Recently in New York, Kasparov told grade school students that chess is a positive alternative to video games. These words, come as Kasparov promotes his new chess computer game "Talking Coach Kasparov" by Saitek. It has the unique feature of having an electronic chess tutor talk to you when you're in trouble. Kasparov was born in Moscow and was an outspoken critic of communism during the Cold War. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Kasparov in addition to playing world class competitive chess he is also the co-founder of "Democratic Russia" a political movment that supported Boris Yeltsin's election as President.

The Justice Department has turned down a third request for an independent counsel to investigate possible campaign finance violations involving former Democratic fundraiser John Huang. But NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that the Attorney General is referring the case to an internal Justice Department campaign finance task force. The Justice Department says the case does not meet the criteria of the Independent Counsel Act: It doesn't involve high administration officials and it doesn't create a conflict of interest for the Justice Department. Senator John McCain made the request, and says the decision not to appoint an independent counsel may make congressional hearings necessary.

Federal officials are warning people in California and other states that have legalized medicinal marijuana-smoking that the federal ban is still in effect. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that state proponents of decriminalizing marijuana say they hope the feds will decide not to enforce it. They say that's what happened in the days when states were repealing their liquor prohibition laws, but the federal ban had not, and the practical effect was to decriminalize alcohol.

Instead of fighting off rebel assaults, the Zairean army is looting and pillaging and generally contributing to the country falling apart.

Robert talks about Wall Street slang, and what it really means...from a "downturn" to a "dip" to "the c-word."

, public acceptance of homosexuality has increased 10-percent. There are more gay and lesbian characters on prime time T.V. than ever before. But some say these characterizations are not always very realistic.

MILO MILES reviews the new CD by Jaguars. (hag-ar-es) The ablue is "El Equilibrio De Los Jaguares." INT. 2: We''ll hear from NORMA STORCH and JUNE CROSS who are featured in this week''s Frontline program entitled "Secret Daughter." Storch who is white gave up her half black child to a black couple. We''ll hear from both mother and daughter as they reflect back. Norma Storch (mother) is married to actor Larry Story who starred in the TV comedy F-Troop in the mid 1960''s. June Cross (daugher) is a television producer for the PBS series "Frontline." REV. 2: We''ll hear an excerpt from the new NPR radio show, "This American Life" produced at WBEZ in Chicago. Short fiction writer, JULIE SHOWALTER talks about growing up on a turkey farm in Missouri.