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Daniel talks with jazz musician Michael Wolff, who plays solo piano for us in our studio. The former bandleader for the Arsenio Hall Show is now traveling and recording with a trio - and that's been a quite a change of lifestyle for him.

BILL GATES is chief executive and co-founder of Microsoft, the world's largest software company. Microsoft has made Gates rich and famous, and has earned him a reputation as a computer visionary. GATES recently wrote the book The Road Ahead (Viking). GATES explores the new, growing technology and how it will effect people's lives, including the realms of education, politics, and business. GATES says that he does not "necessarily have all the answers, but the book is my way of getting us all to start thinking about the opportunities and challenges ahead."

Administration officials and members of Congress appeared on the Sunday talk shows today, debating the merits and liabilities of sending American troops to Bosnia to help enforce the Dayton peace accord. NPR's John Nielsen reports .

DAY BIRTHS - Tandaleya Wilder of Connecticut Public Radio reports that a hospital in Greenwich has decided not to discharge mothers who've given birth after only one day, as most insurance companies insist. Hospital officials say one-day stays are dangerous for newborn babies and their mothers. The second day's stay will be at the hospital's expense.

Book Critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews two re-issues from novelist Angela Thirkell, The Headmistress and Growing Up. The publishing company is Moyer Bell. Both books were originally published in the 1940s in Great Britain. Thirkell had a loyal following of readers who in the late 1930s and 40s would set up reading groups called "Thirkell Circles." Thirkell wrote nearly 40 novels.

MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews Women on Ice: Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle (published by Routledge).

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TEMPLE GRANDIN is one of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities. She is also autistic. In her book, Thinking in Pictures: and other reports from my life with Autism she describes how her inner-autistic world has led her to develop animal empathy. She is currently an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Her new book is published by Doubleday 1995. Grandin was the subject of Oliver Sack's 1993 New Yorker article "An Anthropologist on Mars."

WE RECEIVE A LESSON IN BELLRINGING FROM THE DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AT ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN HENDERSONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

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