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SPORTS: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION SPORTS COMMENTATOR RON RAPOPORT TALK ABOUT OLYMPIC DIVING GOLD MEDALIST GREG LOUGANIS, WHO REVEALED THIS WEEK THAT HE HAS AIDS.

2: Musician GREG GRAFFIN, lead singer of the punk band, Bad Religion. The group started 15 years ago, and helped pioneer the hard rock/punk style of bands like Green Day and Offspring. Bad Religion's eighth recording is "Stranger Then Fiction," and it's their first on a major label (Atlantic). When GRAFFIN isn't performing, he's spending time with his wife and child, or working on his Ph.D. in Biology at Cornell.

STAMBERG/BICYCLES: SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH TOM O'KEEFE, DIRECTOR OF THE NONPROFIT UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK THAT HAS PUT A HUNDRED DONATED BIKES ON THE STREETS OF PORTLAND, OREGON, FOR THE FREE USE OF ANYONE.

Commentator Amy Wu (woo) talks about the nonchalant attitude that her teenage peers have about sex. It wasn't until AIDS patients spoke at her school, that students realized the dangerous consequences of unprotected sex.

Rock historian ED WARD reviews Rhino''s new "Doo Wop Box."

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NPR REPORTER MARIA HINOJOSA ABOUT HER NEW BOOK "CREWS - GANG MEMBERS TALK TO MARIA HINOJOSA" PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY.

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the new recording of Kurt Weil''s "The Seven Deadly Sins," featuring the New York Philharmonic and soprano Angelina Reaux (on Teldec).

NPR'S RENEE MONTAGNE REPORTS ON THE LATEST IN THE O.J. SIMPSON DOUBLE MURDER TRIAL.

Daniel talks with Lawrence Fuchs, professor of American studies at Brandeis University, about his proposals to help resolve the current debate over affirmative action programs. Fuchs proposes limiting affirmative action programs to native-born American blacks because of the country's historical debt to this minority. He also proposes phasing out affirmative action programs for other minorities over the next five to ten years and strengthening anti-discrimination laws to protect their gains.

Writer MARITA GOLDEN, author of "Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World" (Doubleday). GOLDEN writes about bringing up her son in Washington D.C., where homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males between 18 and 24. In the preface, she says, "I stopped work on a novel in order to write this book. The unremitting press of young lives at risk, the numbing stubbornness of annual, real-life death tolls, rendered fiction suddenly unintriguing, vaguely obscene." She has instead written a book called "moving, disturbing and important" by Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's' Defense Fund.