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Madeline Brand of member station WBGO in Newark reports on a proposal in the NJ state legislature which would force applicants for drivers licenses to take their test in English. New Jersey currently offers the test in a dozen languages.

Daniel visits the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation in Washington state. In recent years, the tribe has experienced an unusually high rate of negative pregnancy outcomes. After three years of antagonism with the federal Indian Health Service, they have been improving the quality of their health care.

Danny speaks with Dr Philip Williams, a hydrologist in San Francisco, about the dangers of building on the flood plain. He says that Californians who were flooded out this past week should take heed of the lessons learned by residents along the Mississippi river in 1993.

Professor and writer ANDRE ACIMAN, author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir." (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The book follows ACIMAN's close-knit, flamboyant Jewish family through 50 years of residence in Alexandria. The family was forced to leave Egypt when ACIMAN was 14, during a long wave of Anti-Semitism and Arab nationalism. The New York Times says, "there is a whole gallery of characters here, vividly realized," as ACIMAN explores the lives and relationships of his grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, and finally his own emotions about leaving his idyllic childhood home.

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "Just Cause," the new thriller starring Sean Connery.

STAMBERG/LETTERS: HOST SUSAN STAMBERG READS SOME LISTENER MAIL.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the largest ritual gathering ever... about 18 million people converged on the town of Allahabad on the Ganges river for what one participant called "the spiritual jackpot." This festival is held every six years, but this will be the last one this century and it fell on Monday, which is a lucky day for Hindus, so there was a record turnout.

Film director CARL REINER. He was a writer and appeared in Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." He's best-known to baby boomer audiences as the creator and writer of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." He also staged several Broadway plays, including "Enter Laughing," which is based on his novel and which he later adapted to the screen. Since then, he has concentrated on film direction, specifically comedies. His films include "Where's Poppa?" "The Jerk," "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid," "All of Me" "Oh God," and "Bert Rigby, You're a Fool." (REBROADCAST FROM 3/2/89)Librettist, poet, playwright JACK LARSON. He got his start as an actor, playing Jimmy Olsen, the cub-reporter on the original "Superman" TV show. He was the librettist for "Lord Byron," an opera by Virgil Thompson (Koch International Classics, 1992). He's also written the versed plays, "The Candied House," and "Cherry, Larry, Sandy, Doris, Jean, Paul," and he has been a film producer. (REBROADACAST FROM 4/

Nina Teicholz reports on the changing job market. Many college seniors are anxious that they will not get jobs, but in fact it is just the types of jobs available that are changing. There are going to be more employment opportunities in the health care and telecommunications industries in the future.

Michelle Corum of Interlochen Public Radio has a report on a paramilitary group in Michigan called the Northern Michigan Regional Militia. The group says it is preparing to the day when it will have to protect itself and others against "those who break the constitution" at home and abroad. But, some law enforcement and civil rights organizations are worried that such groups will go from extremism to terrorism.