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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH NAT HENTOFF, LONG-TIME COLUMNIST WITH THE "VILLAGE VOICE," ABOUT A $40,000 SURVEY FUNDED AND CONDUCTED BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, TO DISCOVER IF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY ARE DRIVEN CRAZY BY THE CITY.

Daniel reads letters from listeners.

Daniel talks to Army historian Bill Hammond about 24th infantry regiment, an all-black regiment that fought during the Korean war. Recently, the army has re-written the history of the regiment.

NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME HOPE OF RELIEVING THE AGRICULTURAL AND ECOLOGICAL SCOURGE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN FIRE ANT IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES.

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

The Maldives are a group of islands in the Indian Ocean. They've got a problem. Due to global warming, the waters around the Maldives are rising, and within 50 years, the islands may no longer exist, sunk, as it were, underneath the ocean. Eric Weiner visited the Maldives and prepared this report.

TOMORROW, THE ORIGINAL PROTOTYPE TUCKER TORPEDO, OR "THE TIN GOOSE," DUBBED THE CAR OF THE FUTURE SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, WILL BE AUCTIONED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE 25TH ANNUAL AUBURN COLLECTOR CAR SHOW AND AUCTION IN AUBURN, INDIANA. SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH JOHN LEMMO, THE OWNER OF THE CAR WHO FOUND THE PROTOTYPE RUSTING AWAY BEHIND A BARN 25 YEARS AGO.

STAMBERG/FREBERG: HUMORIST STAN FREBERG (FREE-berg) WILL BE INDUCTED INTO CHICAGO'S RADIO HALL OF FAME. WE'LL PLAY A BIT FROM ONE OF HIS OLD ROUTINES.

EERO MAENTYRANTA (EE-roh MEAN-tah-rahn-tah), ONE OF FINLAND'S MOST FAMOUS MEDAL WINNERS IN THE 1960'S IN THE SPORT OF CROSS COUNTRY SKIING, WAS ACCUSED OF "BLOOD DOPING" BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF ABOUT 20% MORE RED BLOOD CELLS IN HIS SYSTEM. RESEARCHERS HAVE NOW IDENTIFIED THE GENETIC MUTATION WHICH INCREASES THE RED BLOOD CELLS IN HIS AND MANY OF HIS RELATIVES' BLOOD, AND HAVE COMPLETELY CLEARED HIM. HOST SUSAN STAMBERG SPEAKS WITH HIM, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF MARIA GUERCIN (GU-erh-sin) OF THE FINNISH EMBASSY HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHO INTERPRETS.

For the record, we play tape from a Yankee Stadium ceremony in 1969 where the Yankees retired Mantle's number. Joe Dimaggio appeared along with Mantle.