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There's a big Hollywood party tonight to mark the upcoming birthday of George Burns. He will be 100 years old this Saturday. We play excerpts from a 1940s Burns & Allen radio show - which foreshadows George Burns longevity in a comic way. (3:30) (

GOLDFARB-SHARROCK-HOLLAND SCOTT HOLDS A DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL GOLDFARB IN LONDON, DAVID SHARROCK OF THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER IN BELFAST AND JACK HOLLAND OF THE NEW YORK IRISH ECHO ABOUT THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THE LONDON BOMBING.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH JOHN F. CALLAHAN, EDITOR OF "THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF RALPH ELLISON."

on new Pentagon precautions to protect troops from landmines in Bosnia.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu is desperately trying to finish a novel and wonders if he needs a relief novelist to come in and tie up all the loose ends and loose characters he has created.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that promised welfare reform is unlikely to be passed this year.

INDIA'S TEST-FIRING TODAY OF A NEW VERSION OF ONE OF ITS BALLISTIC MISSILES IS PART OF A DANGEROUS MILITARY AND DIPLOMATIC PUZZLE INVOLVING HIGH TENSIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN, PLUS U.S. RELATIONS WITH THOSE TWO COUNTRIES AND CHINA. TED CLARK REPORTS.

SANDY TOLAN REPORTS ON REACTION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST TO THE REINTRODUCTION OF WOLVES TO THE REGION'S WILDERNESS. TO RESIDENTS, IT'S HARDLY AS SIMPLE AS RANCHERS-VERSUS-ENVIRONMENTALISTS.

A former presidential aide testified before a House committee today about some notes he wrote in 1993 regarding the firings of White House travel office employees. The notes mention conversations in which third parties told the witness that Hillary Rodham Clinton wanted the employees fired. Mrs Clinton has said she did not direct any dismissals, and NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the witness testified that she did not tell him to fire them.

NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on beads and the way humans have doted, decorated, collected, traded, interpreted, identified, sold and bought with beads through the ages. It's said that beads are the second-oldest form of commerce known to mankind.