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NPR'S DEAN OLSHER REPORTS ON THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FACE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE, AND ON QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THE INDUSTRY BACKS ITS CLAIMS.

SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SHORTSTOP CAL RIPKEN OF THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WHO, THIS WEEK, BROKE LOU GERHIG'S MONUMENTAL RECORD OF 2,130 CONSECUTIVE GAMES PLAYED THAT HAD STOOD SINCE 1939.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH MARTIN GOLDSMITH, HOST OF NPR'S PERFORMANCE TODAY, ABOUT A NEW CD TITLED "MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH - J.S. BACH," AVAILABLE ON EMI CLASSICS. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH WROTE SIX SUITES FOR UNACCOMPANIED CELLO, AND MR. ROSTROPOVICH, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LIVING MUSICIANS, HAS RECORDED ALL OF THEM IN THIS NEW CD.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports that with thousands...perhaps a million people expected to participate in tomorrow's Million Man March in Washington, observers are trying to distinguish the message of the event from its controversial organizer Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan drew criticism this week when during an interview with Reuters Television, he made an anti-Semetic remark.

SIMON/SEA TURTLES: FLORIDA HAS BEEN DREDGING SAND FROM THE NEARBY OCEAN FLOOR TO REPLENISH ERODING BEACHES FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. THEIR THOUGHTS OF IMPORTING MUCH NEEDED SAND FROM THE BAHAMAS MAY HAVE BEEN DASHED BECAUSE OF THE THREAT THIS POSES TO THE THEIR SEA TURTLES BECAUSE THE GRANULES ARE TWO DEGREES COOLER AND THE GENDER OF A SEA TURTLE IS DETERMINED BY THE TEMPERATURE OF THE NEST. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH PETER LUTZ, PROFESSOR OF MARINE BIOLOGY AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY TO EXPLAIN THIS.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH SAM LeBUDDE, AN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST NOTED FOR SNEAKING VIDEO CAMERAS INTO FORBIDDEN PLACES, ABOUT HIS CAREER OF BRINGING THE ABUSE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES TO PUBLIC VIEW.

NPR'S MELISSA BLOCK VISITS "NEWCOMERS SCHOOL" IN LONG ISLAND CITY IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS IN NEW YORK CITY. IT IS A NEW PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL JUST OPENED UP EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE NEWEST NEW YORKERS, DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THIS COUNTRY LESS THAN A YEAR AND WHOSE ENGLISH SKILLS ARE MINIMAL.

NPR'S JIM ZARROLI REPORTS ON THE "AMERICAN BUSINESS COLLABORATION FOR QUALITY DEPENDENT CARE," FORMED THREE YEARS AGO BY SOME OF THE NATION'S BIGGEST COMPANIES, IN AN EFFORT TO ADDRESS EMPLOYEES' PROBLEMS IN CARING FOR CHILDREN AND ELDERLY RELATIVES....WHICH TRANSLATES TO COMPANY PRODUCTIVITY.

Daniel talks to Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-WA, and Pamela Dunn, a former welfare mother, who were partners in a program called Walk a Mile in Your Sister's Shoes, which paired lawmakers with welfare recipients. Pamela Dunn said that she expected a Republican member of Congress to be participating in the program just for appearances but found that Rep. Dunn was very gracious and even changed her position on one issue because of their conversations.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond looks back at President Clinton's failed effort to implement health care reform, and notes that there's been a political role reversal of sorts, with Republicans now heading up an attempt to change the way the country's medical services are delivered.