June 22, 1998 All Things Considered (entire program) Requires the RealAudio Player

An index of the day's stories:

SUPREME COURT RULES ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT -- The Supreme Court ruled today that if administrators did not know about any misconduct, school districts cannot be held liable when teachers sexually harass or abuse students. NPR's Nina Totenberg has the details of the ruling. (4:30)

CLINTON'S CHINA ENTOURAGE -- Linda talks with Winston Lord, former US Ambassador to China and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. They discuss the logistics of presidential trips to China, and how they have changed since the Nixon presidency. (4:45)

CHINA & JAPAN -- NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that President Clinton will have to perform a balancing act when he goes to China this week. While China has played a role in defusing the Asian financial crisis and is fast becoming an powerful world player, the President must address the concerns of both Congress and activists who want a tougher US position on both human rights issues and on China's role with worldwide weapons proliferation. (2:45)

NEW COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT -- NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that the election of a new president in Colombia is likely to herald a new era in US-Colombian relations. The current president, Ernesto Samper, was barred from the United States after information surfaced that he had accepted campaign contributions from leading drug traffickers. US financial aid to Colombia was already growing despite the troubles with Samper, and is now likely to increase under the new president, Andres Pastrana. US officials say they are especially anxious to help Pastrana negotiate a peace accord to end the 30-year old civil war in Colombia. (4:00)

ANTEATER -- Commentator Elissa Ely has a story about a trip she once took from Central America, where she met a man with a pet anteater. The man didn't realize that getting his beloved pet into the United States was going to be difficult. (3:30)

THERAPY VS. DRUGS -- A greater understanding of the brain and its chemistry has given psychotherapists a whole new battery of chemical weapons to work with. Drugs like Prozac, Xanax, Paxil and Risperidone are now commonly prescribed to treat a host of mental illnesses, including depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety. Some therapists worry that in light of these advances, and goaded by cost and time constraints imposed by insurance companies, the profession may be forfeiting the time honored technique of helping patients to talk through their woes to achieve longer term well-being. Others say that pills are helping advance talk therapy by enabling patients to get beyond the acute symptoms to further enhance personal analysis. Frank Browning's first report in a series on changes taking place in the field of psychiatry. (12:30)

TOULOUSE THUGS -- The English are back for another match in the World Cup; this time in the city of Toulouse. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that after last week's rioting by the English soccer bullies in Marseille, French police are taking no chances. They're using high tech surveillance methods to keep tabs on potential troublemakers, and to head off trouble before it starts. (3:30)

BASEBALL, NOT SOCCER! -- Commentator Ralph Schoenstein declares his love for the American sport of baseball, and derides the favorite pastime of the rest of the world...SOCCER. (3:00)

CLINTON & TEEN SMOKERS -- NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Washington on President Clinton's announcement today that he wants the federal government to track which brands of cigarettes are most often smoked by teens. The study had been contained in the anti-tobacco bill that was killed in the Senate last week. The bill also called for penalties for those which were most often smoked by teens, but since the bill was voted down, there are currently no penalties attached to the study Clinton called for today. (4:30)

TEEN SMOKERS -- We talked with a sampling of teenagers at Washington DC's Union Station about which brands of cigarettes young people are most likely to smoke. The winner, hands down: Marlboros. (2:00)

BUS CRASH & HIGHWAY SAFETY -- Noah talks with Peter Shelly, a reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. They discuss the ongoing investigation of a crash that involved a Greyhound bus and a truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike this past Saturday morning. Seven people were killed and 18 injured in Greyhound's deadliest accident since the 1970s. Investigators have already ruled out the possibility that the bus's brakes failed, but they are still looking into the whether or not the bus driver had fallen asleep at the wheel. (5:00)

WAR CRIMES TRIAL -- Gillian Sharpe reports from the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague on the case against Anto Furundzhija, a member of the Bosnian Croat militia during the Bosnian war. He's accused of allowing the rape and torture of a woman during an interrogation. The tribunal's judges are now considering the verdict. (3:30)

BOSNIAN CURRENCY -- Jacky Rowland reports from Sarajevo on the introduction of a new currency for Bosnia. The new convertible mark is directly pegged to the German mark, and replaces both the Croatian Kuna and the Yugoslav Dinar which have been circulating. Economists say the new money will boost commerce and employment, while also curbing inflation. The politicians see it as the next step toward the political integration of Bosnia-Herzegovina. (4:30)

INTERNET PRIVACY -- NPR's Larry Abramson reports from Washington on the preparations for a two-day Commerce Department conference on Internet privacy which is due to begin tomorrow. On the table is how the electronic world of the Internet presents problems that often defy traditional methods of protecting medical records, credit card information and other personal data that is easily passed along digitally.(2:45)

JUVENILE CYBERCRIME -- NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports from Washington on efforts by the Justice Department to protect against hackers interfering with sensitive computer operations. In the first federal prosecution of a juvenile computer crime, prosecutors have won the conviction of a teenager who disabled a computer that controlled key functions at the Worcester, Massachusetts regional airport. But tracking and successfully prosecuting cybercrime still promises to be a tough task for federal law enforcement. (9:30)

THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY -- Alan Cheuse reviews the debut novel from Samantha Gillison, called The Undiscovered Country. It's about a family that moves from the United States to Papua New Guinea so that the father can carry out his research. Cheuse says that the prose is both vivid and crisp, leaving readers with a feeling that the events in the book might have actually happened to them. (2:00)

BRIAN WILSON -- Reviewer David Greenberger examines Imagination, the long-awaited CD by Brian Wilson, the last surviving Wilson brother from the Beach Boys. It sounds unmistakably like a Beach Boys album, with all the inane lyrics and beautiful harmonies. This time, it's all the result of one man's work. These songs were recorded in rural Illinois, far away from any beach, . With Imagination, Wilson creates a very personal, biographical collection. (4:00)