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We play a reading from a 100-year old newspaper account from the Chicago Tribune which describes the first automobile race in America. The 55-mile race was held on Thanksgiving day 1895...from downtown Chicago to Evanston, Illinois.

We hear a medly of songs sung by Senators Trent Lott, Larry Craig, John Ashcroft and Jim Jeffords. They performed earlier this week at a Republican fundraising dinner.

Danny discusses the pros and cons of sending U.S. troops to Bosnia to enforce a peace agreement with a panel of three op-ed page editors: Tom Bray of the Detroit News, Bob Kittle of the San Diego Union Tribune; and Billy Winn of the Columbus (Georgia) Ledger-Enquirer.

NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from the Sava River on the columns of troops and heavy weapons crossing the U.S. Army pontoon bridge into nothern Bosnia. Troops, tanks and artillery are crossing in record numbers. The military hopes to have half of its 20,000-man contingent in place within a couple of weeks.

Linda talks with NPR's Joe Palca about new dietary guidelines released today by the federal government. For the first time, the guidelines, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, say that a completely vegetarian diet and moderate drinking can be healthful.

As a child, commentator Bill Harley had never been exposed to beets or John Coltrane because his father didn't like them. When he first tried beets and heard Coltran'e music in college, he didn't like them either. But recently, he tried beets and liked them. Then he listened to Coltrane again and like that, too.

At a Congressional hearing today the General Accounting Office released a report on some of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's extensive world travel. The report says the department has very sloppy accounting and cannot account for $250-thousand in spending. NPR's John Nielsen reports defenders say the report is full of holes while other supporters worry that overseas business will be lost if the secretary is forced to curtail her travel. The controversy regarding Secretary O'Leary's management is nowhere near over.

NPR's David Baron reports that new preliminary data from measurements of the Earth's temperature in 1995 supports theories that global warming is occurring. According to surface temperature measurements, last year was the warmest on record. Experts caution, however, that it remains unclear how much of the increase may be due to natural variation.

Linda asks for educated guesses of what the year ahead holds in store from David Yepson, political editor at the Des Moines Register; Richard Nathan, Provost of Rockerfeller College in Princeton, New Jersey; David Wyss, Research Director of the economic consulting firm of DRI McGraw-Hill; Brock Meeks, Washington Correspondent for Wired magazine; Holly Brubach, Style Editor of the New York Times Magazine; and Jack Matthews, Senior Film Critic and Columnist for Newsday. (12:00)

Commentator Stuart Chiefet (chef-AY) says that with so many people using lap-top computers these days, some entrepreneours could make a fortune by simply offering hackers caught in remote spots an electrical outlet where they can plug in their machines.

NPR's John McChesney reports the online service Compuserve says it plans to reopen access to nearly 200 sexually-oriented discussion groups to all but its German customers by the end of the month. Compuserve closed the forums after prosecutors in Germany said some of the material in the groups violated German obscenity laws.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with housing attorney Lee Camp about the new eviction moratorium the CDC issued now that the previous moratorium has expired.

Linda talks with Washington Post reporter Christine Spolar who is several miles north of the Sava River in Croatia. The bridge over the river, built by U.S. Army engineers from the 502nd company, is now carrying hundreds of trucks per day from Croatia into Bosnia.

With COVID-19 cases spiking in Michigan and vaccinations stalled, some businesses are asking customers to show proof of vaccination. But there are unvaccinated residents who call this discrimination.

Danny treks around various sites in Washington,D.C., which is in the midst of a huge winter storm that's likely to deposit upwards of 20 inches of snow on the ground. He begins at the Capitol Building, where kids are sledding down the building's steps; then Danny talks with a meteorologist from the National Weather Service who says this storm may be one of the biggest ever in the mid-Atlantic region; finally, Danny visits a homeless shelter not far from Capitol Hill.

Daniel speaks with Marion Nestle about this past week's endoresment of vegetarian diets by the federal government. Nestle was on the USDA panel that issued the guidelines on vegetarian diets and she says that for many years there's been evidence to show that eating vegetarian is healthy.

Poet and storyteller Jim Heynan tells his story about a snowbound young boy who fears snow and fantasizes about spring.

NPR's David Baron talks to meteorologists about the kinds of conditions that are necessary to produce a major snow storm. Experts say they're the same kind of conditions needed for an average storm, only more so.

In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.

Danny speaks with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who recently returned from his first trip to Vietnam since the war ended some 20 years ago.