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A handful of nonprofit companies, mostly church-based, are challenging holiday shoppers to give money that will buy practical gifts to help needy people in developing countries. They ask Americans: 'instead of buying for the person who has everything, why not buy for the family that has nothing?' For more information...Alternative Gifts International 800-842-2243; Serve International 800-723-3712; World Concern 800-755-5022; Heifer Project International 800-422-0474; American Friends Service 888-588-2372

between rebels and the Zairean army and also between rival Zairean and Ugandan rebel groups.

and opponents over a researcher's findings on concealed weapon laws. The study says that the 31 states allowing its citizens to carry concealed guns have a decreased rate of violent crimes.

The BBC's Daniel Lack reports from Islamabad on the ouster of the government of Benazir Bhutto. A caretaker Prime Minister and nine cabinet members were sworn in this morning to replace the Bhutto government, which has been accused of widespread corruption. She is currently under an unofficial form of house arrest.

about the results and implications of last night's presidential and congressional races.

Noah talks with Ethan James, former rock musician and punk rock producer, now a passionate hurdy-gurdy player. He has just put out his first CD featuring the hurdy-gurdy. It's called "The Ancient Music of Christmas." James brings two hurdy-gurdies into the studio - one he made himself, and the other from Hungary. He demonstrates how they sound and describes what they look like.

He is known as Lieutenant Arthur Fancy on NYPD Blue(Steven Bochco Productions), the Emmy Award-winning police drama. Emmy nominee actor JAMES McDANIEL. McDANIEL has appeared in numerous television, film and theater productions, including the films "Strictly Business," "Malcolm X," and "Alice." He's also received the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in the Broadway play, "Six Degrees of Separation." McDANIEL has appeared on the television shows "Kate and Allie," "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law," and "Civil Wars." This past summer McDANIEL filmed the feature "Fighting Gravity" (A.K.A. "Truth or Consequences") with Kieffer Sutherland, Rod Steiger, and Martin Sheen. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new CD by the artist formerly known as Prince, "Emancipation" (on the NPG/div. of EMI/Capitol label).

Noah talks with Miodrag Perisic, the deputy chairman of the Democratic Party in Serbia, about the ongoing protests against Slobodan Milosevic, and what it is that the demonstrators hope to accomplish, now that Milosevic has made it clear that he will not change his decision to annul the initial outcome of November elections in that region, which had given power to Opposition candidates.

Noah talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about conditions in the eastern Zairean city of Goma, recently captured by Zairean Tutsi rebels. The rebels escorted foreign journalists into the city today. The city is for the most part calm, though reporters were only allowed to see certain areas. Goma is the site of camps housing hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees; the battle for the city left the refugees cut off from food and medicine.