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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in the news this ast week, including Senator Bob Packwood's (R-OR) resignation on the floor of he U.S. Senate; former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman pleads the 5th; white eparatist Randall Weaver testifies at Senate subcommittee investigation of the 992 Ruby Ridge, Idaho shootout with federal agents; BBC reporter John cIntyre's account of tear gas used against anti-nuclear protesters in Tahiti; aseball great Joe DiMaggio on Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken; Ripken omments on his appearance in 2,131 consecutive games.

HELEN PREJEAN (pray-ZSAHN). Prejean is a Roman Catholic nun. Her book, "Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" (Random House, 1993) details her experience working with death row inmates in Louisiana. It's been made into a new film, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Prejean has come to believe that the death penalty is not only ineffective as a deterrent, but that the government can't be trusted to decide who should live and who should die. (REBROADCAST from 7

2: Writer JOE KANE talks about his book "Savages." (Knopf 1995) It's his first-hand account on the confrontations between Amazonian warriors and multi-national oil companies, environmentalists and missionaries. Kane writes about the Huoarani (Wow-rahn-nee) tribe's fight for its culture and environment. Kane's earlier book "Running the Amazon" was a 1989 New York Times best-seller. (re-broadcast from 11

SIMPLE.Robert talks with Tom Oschenslager,(OSH-EN-SLANHG-ER), is a tax partner the accounting firm Grant Thornton in Washington DC. He spoke to us from his office. 3. LIGHT & LAG. Noah talks with Dr. Charles Czeisler (SIZE-ler), Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and senior author of a new study on human response to light. The study, published today in the journal Nature, shows that normal levels of indoor light, not just bright light, can reset the human biological clock. Czeisler says that, thanks to Edison, our bodies are in a permanent state of jet lag.

Linda talks to Ann Reilly Dowd, Washington correspondent for Money Magazine, about the record high credit card delinquency reported today by the American Bankers Association. During the April-June quarter of this year, credit card payments overdue 30 days or longer rose to 3.66 percent of the total accounts, higher than it has ever been since the association began collecting data in 1974. During that same period, banks suffered $3.8 billion in losses on credit card and consumer loans, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

2: From Australia, writer and adventurer ROBYN DAVIDSON. Her book "Tracks" (paperback, Vintage) was the account of her 1,700 mile journey across Australia with four camels and a dog. It won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her next adventure was a trip across the Indian desert with nomads, which she chronicled in the new book "Desert Places." (Viking). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

Robert talks with Binjamin Wilkomirski about the Holocaust. Wilkomirski's book, Fragments, is an account of his childhood experiences. The book has been translated into nine languages and has been published in eleven countries. As a very young child, Wilkomirski was taken to a Nazi concentration camp. He lived in barracks with other children. The language that he learned was a combination of the many languages to which he was exposed. He had no native tongue. He has no recollection of his mother... only of a woman he was brought to one day at the camp and was told was his mother. Wilkomirski tells Robert about the effect all of these experiences have had on his life, and his outlook on the world.

The Wildlife Conservation Society announces a new approach to tiger conservation: Scientists will focus not only on the tigers, but also on the safety of their prey and the actions of their human neighbors.

In Houston, federal prosecutors and former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay continue to spar on the final day of Lay's testimony. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Houston accused Lay of ignoring concerns about the company's accounting. He also pressed Lay for details on $70 million he made selling his own Enron stock.

Public schools perform favorably with private schools when students' income and socio-economic status are taken into account, according to a new report from the U.S. Education Department. The findings counter a popularly held notion, that private schools outperform public schools.