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Maker - NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports on the case of Paul Kim, a high school senior in the Seattle suburbs who got into trouble because of a World Wide Web site he created on the Internet that made fun of his school. The site, which also included links to other Web sites that had sexually explicit material, was not connected to his school in any official way. Kim says that the principal of his high school stripped him of his chance to win a national merit scholarship because of the site.

SIMON/HEINZ 57: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH DONNA DOWLING, AN 8TH GRADE ENGLISH TEACHER AT THE NORTHWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL IN GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA. HER CLASS WROTE TO H.J. HEINZ COMPANY IN PITTSBURGH BRINGING TO THEIR ATTENTION INCORRECT GRAMMAR USED ON THEIR LABEL, AND THE COMPANY WROTE BACK..."AS A RESULT OF YOUR LETTERS, THE BACK LABEL OF HEINZ 57 SAUCE WILL BE REDESIGNED WITH NEW VERBIAGE."

50 YEARS AGO TODAY, ADOLPH HITLER MARRIED HIS LONG-TIME MISTRESS, EVA BRAUN.

SIMON/GUINIER: SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH LANI GUINIER, CURRENTLY PROFESSOR OF LAW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ABOUT HER NEWLY-RERELEASED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY - FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS IN REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, PUBLISHED BY THE FREE PRESS, AND THEY TALK ABOUT CASES COMING BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT THAT COULD CHANGE THE FACE OF POLITICS.

2: Musician, Singer, Record Producer and a Fresh Air favorite BEN VAUGHN. He has a new release, "Mono USA: 8-track Home Recordings 1988-1992" (Bar/None).

2: Journalist STAN SESSER, who details the successful marketing of American cigarettes in Asian countries in a New Yorker article, (September 6, 1993). SESSER claims the continent of Asia consumes half the world's cigarettes. Of particular interest to American tobacco firms is China -- despite explict laws prohibiting the sale or advertising of foreign cigarettes -- because three hundred million people smoke (more people than the entire population of the United States). An official of the World Health Organization says deaths by cigarettes in China will soon wipe out gains made in preventing deaths from malnutrition and communicable diseases.

2: Novelist and short-story writer ROBERT BOSWELL. He's best known for his novels, "Crooked Hearts," and "The Geography of Desire." Of those books, one reviewer wrote (Mr. Boswell) "has a marvelous ability to creat ensemble pieces populated by people who are rich in both psychological detail and idiosyncrasy." His novels focus on families, and the connections between people. BOSWELLS's new novel is "Mystery Ride," (Knopf) about a failed marriage that endures, however, in the hearts of the couple. BOSWELL also teaches at New Mexico State University and at the Warren Wilson Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers in North Carolina.