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Robert talks with Lawrence Kobelinski is the associate provost and a professor of forensic science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. They discuss the news that the laboratories of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have mishandled evidence from the Oklahoma City bombing, and what that means for expert witnesses around the nation.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade on a change in the protest movement against the government of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The daily street demonstrations haven't stopped since last November. They've given birth to new initiatives to change the political, civic and economic landscape in Serbia.

Linda talks with Ed Ulbrich (ULL-brick), the vice president and executive producer of Digital Domain, the largest visual effects studio in Hollywood. With a re-release of the movie "Stars Wars" today, we are reminded that this film brought Hollywood into the computer age with its special effects. We look ahead at what's next. Digital Domain is developing computer technology that can replace human actors with cyber-stand-ins, create sets and crowd scenes, and other technological visual wizardry.

Dan Schorr discusses the wages of celebrity fame, in this case, Bill Cosby, who lost his son recently. Dan's guests are Alvin Poussaint, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist and Jonathan Alter, media critic at Newsweek.

The Inter-Continental hotel chain is running a contest where the entrants are guests who've stolen things from their rooms. Scott speaks with Scott Boone, Inter-Continental's vice president of sales and marketing.

critic MILO MILES reviews "The Best of the Barely Works" (on Cooking Vinyal).REV. 2:Commentator GERALD EARLY wonders why black community does and doesn''t work.

Scott speaks with Graeme Simpson, director of the Center for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. South Africa is in the midst of a state-sponsored reconciliation process. Victims and perpetrators of violence under apartheid testify before the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

NPR's John Burnett reports on Texas Attorney General Dan Morales' order barring affirmative action by public colleges and universities. Colleges may not use race as a factor in admissions, scholarships or recruitment programs.

Linda talks with Matthew Wald, a Washington correspondent for the New York Times, about today's near-miss between four F-16 fighter jets and a commuter aircraft. This incident comes on the heels of yesterday's similar problem off the New Jersey coast in which two F-16 jets swooped in on a civilian passenger flight. Investigators are now concerned with who should take the blame for these near-tragedies.

Weekend Edition's entertainment critic, Elvis Mitchell, reviews the BBC television suspense series "Prime Suspect."