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At a meeting in Bethesda, Maryland today, researchers presented evidence about how our mental state can affect our physical bodies. In one study, researchers showed that happily married couples had weakened immune systems after a fight. So if you're going to have a fight with your spouse, you'd better button up your overcoat. NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports.

Commentator Malcolm MacKinnon likes walking around the house at night, with the lights of his electronic appliances all around him. He says they're a comforting reminder of living in the modern age, and guide him around the darkened rooms like small beacons.

Poet and novelist MICHAEL ONDAATJE (on-DAH-chay). He won Britian's highest literary prize, the Booker Prize, for his novel set in post World War II, "The English Patient," (Vintage Books). ONDAATJE was born in Cyelon (now Sri Lanka), emigrated to England, and now lives in Canada. He also has written a personal memoir, "Running in the Family," (Vintage) about his eccentric family. Both books are now out in paperback. "The English Patient" has been made into a new film. (REBROADCAST from 1

: Book Critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN considers Shakespeare''s re-emergence on the silver screen. Three Shakespeare movies will be out by Christmas.

reach an important teenage milestone.

For the past two weeks, NPR's Mike Shuster has been travelling through the former Soviet republics in Central Asia, following the ancient trade route known as the Silk Road... from Iran through Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and now Tadjikistan, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 1992. He spoke with Robert Siegel from the town of Garm, about 100 miles east of Tadjikistan's capital, Dushanbe. He says that the people in Garm are proud of their new-found independence, but are struggling to rebuild a city that has essentially collapsed with the departure of the Soviets and a four year civil war.

Two airplanes collided today in the skies over New Delhi, India, and more than 350 people are feared dead. A Saudi Boeing 747 carrying 312 passengers had just taken off from Indira Gandhi International Airport when it struck a Kazak Airlines plane trying to land with 39 people. This could be the third deadliest crash in aviation history. Lea Terhune reports from New Delhi.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the United States seems to have shirked its role as world peacekeeper lately, and thus diminished its role as the one remaining superpower.

In honor of Veterans' Day, President Clinton speaks at a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Commentator Doug Bradley talks about his private ritual of rereading his letters and journals from Vietnam. They help him bridge the gap between his father's experiences from WWII and his own experiences from a more recent war.

Commentator Kevin Kling tells a story about the time he decided it was time to get a bike. Not a bicycle...a MOTORcycle. He takes his motorcycle out with some more experienced riders...which is to say, a bunch of bikers...and begins to find out what he's made of.