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NPR's John McChesney reports Intel, the world's largest computer-chip maker, is unveling a new generation of its popular pentium processor. The MMX chip will improve the way a computer handles video, audio and graphics, according to Intel officials. The new chip is said to be fully compatible with earlier chip designs and operating systems.

A year after the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 went into effect, regional phone companies are applying to offer long distance service, television stations are preparing to broadcast digital images, and the industry has been swept by an unprecedented wave of enormous mergers. But as NPR's Phillip Davis reports, much of the law is under court challenge -- and it's still not clear how these changes will affect consumers.

This year is the 50th anniversary of Dior's "New Look", the post-war fashion which was anything but new. The couture, padded and cinched and unsexy, was first snapped up by the wives of wealthy Parisian 'egg and butter men' - black marketeers -- then it swept the world. A retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, a new Dior biography, and of course, Madonna's Evita prompt another look at the silhouette Dior designed with his mother in mind from NPR Correspondent Susan Stamberg.

Scott talks to David George Gordon about his book "The Compleat Cockroach." Mr. Gordon is a big fan of the speedy insect.

Linda talks with Chip Toma (TOH-muh), the grounds supervisor for the National Football League. They discuss the grounds crew's race against time at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The staff at Lambeau Field has decided to tear out all the old sod on the football field and install new turf. The problem is that they want to get the field installed in time for the NFC Championship game there on Sunday.

We hear an excerpt from Madeleine Albright's comments before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, where she is in the first stages of the confirmation process for the office of Secretary of State. She talked about why foreign policy matters to all Americans.

Linda talks with Joe Jackson, a pop music correspondent for the Irish Times. They discuss the new CD collection of old Irish hymns called "Faith of our Fathers," which has hit the top of the pop charts in Ireland. (STATIONS: "Faith of Our Fathers," featuring Frank Patterson, Regina Nathan, the Monks of Glenstal Abbey and the Irish Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, is not yet available in the United States. It is expected to be released in March of this year, on the RTE label, catalogue number RTE CD198.) (8:00) ((ST

to deregulate its financial markets.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports on a new law requiring ALL Massachusetts businesses to post information about reporting sexual harassment in the workplace. Small businesses say the new law is too expensive for them to comply with...it requires the printing of information for posting, for brochures, and in some cases the employers may even be obligated to pay for awareness classes...and that they are essentially required to post information on how employees can sue them.

of the Modern Language Association. Ten-thousand MLA members, scholars and teachers of literature and language, are expected to attend the convention in Washington, D.C.