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Jennifer Ludden from member station WBUR in Boston reports that increasingly new Asian immigrants faced with the prospect of daycare are sending their children back home to China where their grandparents take care of them.

A story by Carmen Deedee.

in - In Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where Jacki grew up, the Kiltie Drive-In has been a fixture for about 50 years. One of Jacki's classmates from high school now runs it... Jacki checks in with him and remembers the double hamburgers they used to order.

NPR's David Welna spends an evening on patrol with rookie police officers in Haiti. They have few uniforms, limited patrol cars, and often have to work in the dark because their generators are out of fuel, but they are optimistic about their ability to police Haiti after interantional troops go home.

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.

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

NPR's Maria Hinojosa revisits a Cuban family she last saw boarding a makeshift raft headed towards the United States. Nine months later the family has settled in Miami, but they are far from happy with their new life.

Jacki talks to NPR's Davis Welna about today's municipal and legislative elections in Haiti. It was the first vote in Haiti since the U.S. military intervened there last September.

NPR's John Greenberg reports on a spat between democrats and republicans over a little-known provision of the nation's gun laws. At issue: whether convicted felons may legally own firearms.

Danny gets an update on Bosnia developments from NPR reporters Andy Bowers (in Zagreb) and Michael Goldfarb (in London). They talk about the Serb assault on Zepa and about a meeting of US, French and British military chiefs in London.

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.

Micahel talks with NPR's Anne Garrels about the vote of confidence by the Russian Parliament for President Boris Yeltsin today. The last time Yeltsin faced the Russian Parliament like this, tanks ended up on the streets of Moscow. This time the vote was over Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis.

President Clinton spoke in Honolulu Hawaii today to comemorate the signing of the Japanese surrender 50 years ago which Second World War. We'll hear an excerpt from the President's speech.

Daniel talks to Thomas Hargrove, an American science writer who was held hostage in Colombia for nearly a year. He says that his hair turned orange from a vitamin deficency.

Senegalese musician Vieux Diop spent his childhood listening to all kinds of music, but his favorite was American blues. Now, Diop lives in New York and travels to schools teaching kids about traditional African music. He joins us in our studios to play one of his instruments.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on the Krickets, a cricket team made up of homeless men in Los Angeles. The team has been competing in a local league and has been so successful that it's been invited to play a series of exhibition games in England.

NPR's John McChesney reviews the efforts to crack down on kiddie porn on the internet. The FBI and America on Line worked together to find pedophiles using the private networks to solicit sex with minors, resulting in arrests and further ongoing investigations.

Daniel speaks with NPR's Andy Bowers in Zagreb, Croatia about the latest developments in Bosnia. Bosnian Serbs are alleging that a number of civilians died when UN artillery fire hit a hospital near Sarajevo. Meanwhile, NATO airstrikes against Serb positions continued.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists are looking into an ancient mystery...trying to determine what caused 80 percent of all plant and animal life on earth to vanish in an episode that pre-dated the dinosaurs.