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Following last week's Supreme Court decision on drug testing Michael talks to Joseph Gfroerer, chief of the National Household survey on drug abuse about the increase in drug use among school-age children.

Professor of Religion at Princeton University ELAINE PAGELS. She has written four books including The Gnostic Gospels (which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award). PAGELS has a new book called The Origin of Satan (Random House).

Daniel talks to Aryan the head of the International Red Cross delegation in Tuzla. She describes the scene after the devastating mortar attack on Thursday. The shell fell in a square filled with young people enjoying a summer night, and she says that many of the young people in Tuzla are still in shock from the loss of friends.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports on block 37 in Chicago... an empty lot in the middle of the downtown area. The lot waws bulldozed in the 1980s real estate boom, but a planned development was never built. On Friday it was announced that Sears Roebuck is considering building on the site.

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT SIMON READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

Linguist GEOFFREY NUNBERG reviews talk radio.

Daniel talks with journalist Gersh Kuntzman who has investigated the origins of what is now an international gesture....the HIGH 5.