Linda talks with NPR's Debbie Elliott about today's verdict in a product-liability case in Jacksonville, Florida. The case has provided a very rare victory for smoking victims. Debra Fraser of member station KUHF in Houston reports on the murder of a black man near Jasper, Texas. Police are calling the attack racially motivated. Two of the suspects wore racist tattoos and allegedly have ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
Commuters are angry, but adapting to life without trains, subways and buses.
There are no talks scheduled, and settlement seems far away. Males's research showed that, in the sample he used in California, curfew enforcement has not driven down crimes committed by youths, as the proponents of curfews had hoped. Nancy Cohen reports that with the unemployment rate at a record low, teenagers are finding it easier than ever to find jobs. Many educators, though, are concerned that employed teens are concentrating more on jobs and making money than they are on their schoolwork. Alan Cheuse has a review of the new translation of the novel Dusk by F. Sionil Jose .