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Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF gives us his year''s best.

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)

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 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 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.

2: Actor LAURENCE FISHBURNE. He was Cowboy Curtis on "Pee-wee's Playhouse," and at 15, he played a young G.I. in "Apocalypse Now." He also played the musician Ike Turner in the film biography of Tina Turner, "What's Love Got To Do With It," and portrayed a streetwise chess pro in "Searching for Bobby Fischer." He plays the title role in the new film adaptation of "Othello." (Rebroadcast from