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Many people who have lost jobs during the pandemic are still awaiting unemployment checks and are figuring out which bills to prioritize. Experts share unusual advice for these unusual times.

A nicotine nasal spray that helps smokers quit has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Linda talks with ???? of the F-D-A about the approval for the sale of this new product called Nicotrol NS. Smokers will soon be able to buy the nasal spray at in pharmacies later this year. ??? explains the safety and the risks of this new product.

Naomi Klein continues. Founder of the American Film Institute, George Stevens, Jr. The 1952 classic western Shane, directed by his father George Stevens has been reissued on DVD, with new special production features. George Stevens, Jr. was a production assistant on the film.

Commentator Reynolds Price jabs at the frivolity of some consumer products popping up on the gadget market place. Not to be out done by the makers of battery powered pepper grinders, Price has a few product ideas of his own: home liposuction, the flesh zipper, and the calorie-exchange switch.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of four women accuses R&B legend Smokey Robinson of sexual misconduct.

Singer James Ingram has died. He was a constant fixture on the pop and R&B charts in the 1980s with hits such as: "Just Once" and "One Hundred Ways."

The Consumer Product Safety Commission advised parents advised to not let babies fall asleep in rockers after multiple deaths tied to Fisher-Price products.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who's challenging incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear, is trying to turn the gubernatorial race into a referendum on national politics.

When Nickel Creek broke up in 2006, it was only a matter of time before the massively popular bluegrass band would spin off into new projects. Hear Chris Thile's band play live in Newport, R.I.

Julia Green of Front Street Books recommends Moonlight on Linoleum by Terry Helwig, City of Women by David R. Gillham and The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly.

Record producer BOBBY ROBINSON. He recorded many classic blues and R&B sessions for his Red Robin, Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels, and has also produced rap. He recorded Elmore Jones, Buster Brown, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. A new boxed collection has come out, "The Fire/Fury Records Story." (Capricorn Records).

Daniel talks to Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-WA, and Pamela Dunn, a former welfare mother, who were partners in a program called Walk a Mile in Your Sister's Shoes, which paired lawmakers with welfare recipients. Pamela Dunn said that she expected a Republican member of Congress to be participating in the program just for appearances but found that Rep. Dunn was very gracious and even changed her position on one issue because of their conversations.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including Sen. Majority Leader Bob Dole, President Bill Clinton, ep. Tim Hutchinson (R-ARK), House Minority Leader David Bonior (D-MI), U.S. mbassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, Lebanese President Elias rawi (hah-RAH-ree) speaking through an interpreter, and Gov. Don Sundquist SUND-kwist) of Tennessee.

Charles Haynes and Oliver Thomas of the First Amendment Center have developed a process known as the 3R Projects: Rights, Responsibility and Respect. The program is designed to educate teachers and administrators about what is and isn't allowed under the First Amendment, so that issues of religious freedom and free speech can be resolved before they turn into lawsuits. NPR's Mandalit DelBarco reports.

President Bush travels to the Czech Republic for three days of meetings with leaders of NATO member nations. Seven eastern European countries will be formally invited into the organization. NPR's Alex Chadwick speaks with Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), the next chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports from Belfast on the opening day of multi-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland. The first day did not go well. The unionists who want to stay as part of Great Britain threatened to walk out...and the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, Sinn Fein (SHIN FAYN), was not allowed into the talks because the I-R-A has not re-instated a cease-fire, which was suspended earlier this year.

From member station W-B-U-R, NPR's Tovia Smith reports that as excavations continue on Boston's Harbor Tunnel project, archeologists are nearing the place where colonists dumped tea into the harbor 222 years ago. They hold out a chance that they may find the wooden tea crates still in place. The dumping site of the tea crates was in deep waters two centuries ago but today it's solid landfill.

Interview with ART CAPLAN continued. INT 3. : Singer/songwriter MARK EITZEL (Eye-tzel) is the former leader of American Music Club, which meshed blues, country, folk, R&B and post-punk rock. He's just released his first solo album, "60 Watt Silver Lining" (Warner Bros). He's backed by a jazz trio. (CONTINUES AFTER FL

Last night the week-long Canadian Auto Workers strike against General Motors spread to every G-M plant in Canada. N-P-R's Don Gonyea reports that because the world's largest automaker stockpiled parts normally produced in the Canadian factories, analysts expect that US assembly plants won't be seriously affected until next week at the earliest.

Republican gains in the midterm elections will bring a new agenda to Capitol Hill, as the GOP reclaims control of the Senate and adds to its advantage in the House. NPR's Scott Simon takes a look ahead with Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN).