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for major parts of development work on its enlarged 747 jumbo jets... these new planes are designed to carry more than 500 people farther than any current plane.

From Belgrade, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports on the continuing protests against the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic by opposition party supporters and students. They're protesting the annulment of municipal elections held on November 17th, which Milosevic's opponents appeared to win. Thousands marched in front of the Serbian Parliament..the largest crowd yet in the 17 days of demonstrations. Earlier in the day, student protestors warned of possible fighting in the streets, and ninety judges joined in the opposition to Milosevic by demanding a re-examination of the election annulment rulings.

under Taliban rule in Afghanistan.

Phyllis Joffe reports on a program that has been teaching children in impoverished neighborhoods in Pittsburgh how to work with ceramics. The program, now thirty years old, has grown to beome one of the country's most successful art centers and a model for community development. (12:00) (S

of the NTSB hearings on the crash of Valujet Flight 592, which crashed in the Florida Everglades last May.

of female prisoners by male guards in many state prisons. The Human Rights Watch investigation conducted a two-year study of 11 women's prisons in California, Georgia, New York, Illinois, Michigan, and the District of Columbia.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is located in Los Angeles. It is the creation of a visionary named David Wilson---who for the past decade has been displaying exhibits that stretch the boundaries of imagination and reality--the horn of a woman from the year 1688, a bat which can supposedly pass clean through solid objects, microminiature sculptures...including Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs on the shaft of a needle. Each exhibit is documented---and Wilson appears to believe that all of it is absolutely genuine and the stories surrounding them are true. Our guide through the museum is New Yorker Magazine writer Lawrence Weschler (WESH-lurr)---who chronicled this museum in his book Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders ---his audio portrait is produced by David Isay.

last night after a power failure, which left tens of thousands of commuters stranded.

to court over its undercover reporting methods that exposed allegedly poor hygiene at many of the supermarkets.

Critic Bob Mondello sings the praises of Woody Allen's first musical "Everyone Says I Love You." It's a throwback to musicals of the 1930's.