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Daniel speaks with NPR's John Greenberg about the continuing talks between the White House and Congressional leaders aimed at balancing the federal budget and re-opening the federal government.

Daniel speaks with Ariel Steele,a 26-year old lawyer from Los Angeles who is leaving her job to become Assistant Attorney General of the newly formed South Pacific nation of Palau.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Cuba and Fidel Castro have long influenced U.S. foreign and domestic policy.

Robert talks with Ze'ev Schiff, military correspondent for the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, about the secret negotiations between Israeli and PLO negotiators over the creation of an unarmed Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as the culmination of their current peace process. Schiff says the two sides already have drafted ideas for such a state.

The House today approved fundamental changes in the nation's agricultural policy as it's existed since the Great Depression. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports on the so-called Freedom-to-Farm legislation that gradually ends subsidies from the federal government and leaves farming to market forces. The Senate has already passed similar legislation.

Commentator Stuart Cheifet says computer sales people often don't know what they are talking out when they try to sell things to customers... and he finds it frustrating, upsetting and annoying to see people buy things they don't need.

New York Times reporter Bill Carter's bestseller The Late Shift which told of the backstage battle between David Letterman and Jay Leno to occupy Johnny Carson's seat on the Tonight show, is now a movie that will debut tomorrow on HBO. A review from Ken Tucker.

Linda and Noah read from another batch of listner comments.

As China prepares to take over Hong Kong next year, many of Hong Kong's film directors are preparing to jump ship for more fertile and lucrative creative ground here in the U.S. Two films with Hong Kong connections are now on American movie screens...Broken Arrow and Rumble in the Bronx. Our critic, Bob Mondello, prepared this report.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that a Canadian judge has been named to replace Richard Goldstone as the prosecutor of the International War Crime Tribunal investigating atrocities in Rwanda and the Balkans. Goldstone will work with Judge Louise Arbour for an interim period before she assumes her full responsibilities with the tribunal.

Noah Adams speaks with Rich Berry, director of the Fish Propagation Program for the state of Oregon. He says budget cuts forced the state to release 8 million baby salmon into the icy Columbia River to meet almost certain death.

Commentator Bailey White comments on odd bathroom practices -- like the little basket of dried flower petals put on the toilet, or the toilet paper folded into a point-- all designed to put us at ease in a dark, primordial room. She also notes the modern technologies in progressive airport bathrooms she has visited.

Members of Congress came back to Washington this week after a three week hiatus. And Commentator Mickey Edwards wants know if the republican members will continue the fight for the GOP agenda. It was only two months ago that budget battles raged between the Congress and the White House. Mickey Edwards wonders if Republicans on the Hill will get back on track with their agenda: the balanced budget and taxes. He wonders what they will get accomplished in the next few months, especially now that the GOP Presdiential candidates have taken the spotlight and shifted focus of the Republican agenda.

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.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Sarajevo on the escalating tension in Bosnia.

WAY - Daniel talks with two men from Northern Ireland, one Protestant the other Catholic, about the effect yesterday's bombing in London by the Irish Republican Army might have on the peace talks. Liam Maskey, a Catholic, is with the community group 'Intercom' which works with at-risk youth in Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast. And, Mark Armstrong is with the "Youth Stadium Club", a group which works with at-risk youth in Protestant areas of the city. Both men were shocked and disappointed by the bombing but remain hopeful that the peace talks will continue and the ceasefire will resume.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports from Sarajevo. Despite the presence of United Nations police, thousands of Serbs from the suburbs are leaving one day before police from the Moslem Croat Federation move in. Many are without transportation and are leaving on foot through snow-covered mountains.

Robert talks with Sherri Rottersman, a young classical

Commentator Reynolds Price talks about the death of his friend, Lightning Brown, who succombed to AIDS at the age of 48. Price reads a poem that Brown wrote for the AIDS House in Carroboro, and responds with a poem of his own.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports...a Clinton judicial nominee withdrew his name from consideration today. Florida attorney..Charles Stack..a dmeocratic fundraiser has been criticized by Bob Dole as an example of a bad judicial nomination.