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Paul Brown reports from Winston-Salem, North Carolina on a debate raging over wood chip mills. Environmentalists believe the mills are creating increased demand for lumber. The timber industry believes the mills are an environmentally friendly way to process wood byproducts.

In a small town outside of Boston, the latest trend is building oversized houses in old subdivisions. Some call the structures McMansions. Many people see them as trophy houses, and neighbors don't like how they dwarf the other homes.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on another ruling from the Florida Supreme Court- this one on a tobacco controversy. The seven justices reinstated a 750 thousand dollar to a smoker who sued the nation's third largest cigarette maker, Brown & Williamson. It's only the second time a tobacco company has been ordered to pay damages.

Host Madeleine Brand talks with Orlando political reporter Peter Brown about the make-up of the Florida State Supreme court. If the court agrees to a petition from Florida's Secretary of State, they will hear all of the legal challenges to the election.

Last week, Brown University named a new president, the first African American woman to lead an Ivy League University. NPR's education correspondent Claudio Sanchez has a profile.

President Clinton hit a series of Democratic campaign rallies today in northern California. He told the crowds that if they want the things they liked about his administration to continue, they have only one choice--Gore, Lieberman and Democratic congressional candidates. NPR's Richard Gonzales was at the president's event in Oakland, where Mr. Clinton said former-Governor, now-Mayor Jerry Brown helped him see there might be political life after the White House.

Karen Brown reports on a new program in Massachusetts that's designed to give people on welfare something more than vocational training. Dubbed, The Clemente Course, it gives students a second shot at learning about the humanities. Its developers say the course makes students better people, as well as better workers.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports on the less known candidates running for president. Everyone knows about Al Gore and George W. Bush. And many are familiar with Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, John Hagelin and Harry Browne. But there are still others who seek the White House, some serious, some less so.

Researchers from Yale and Brown Universities report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association that they have measured the actual brain volume of children who were born prematurely, using M.R.I. scans once the children reached eight years of age. They found that the earlier the premature birth, the more insult to the brain, resulting in a related decrease in I.Q. test scores. It's a first step towards quantifying how much delayed brain development affects intelligence. NPR's Michelle Trudeau has the story.

Frank Browning reports on the number two cancer killer in America -- colon cancer. More than 45-thousand Americans die from it every year. A study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that screening people over 50 for colorectal cancer saves lives. Malignancies are detected earlier, at a more treatable stage. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and several private groups have launched an aggressive colon cancer prevention campaign. But it's been difficult to get people over 50 to get tested.