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may loosen standards that define exactly what ingredients can be in certain foods -- a move that alarms consumer advocates.

Commentator Reuven Frank looks at the year in the TV...an industry that keeps on changing, with recent developments in satellite services and multiple channel offerings. but he says most of these changes don't amount to improvements---multiple channels seem to offer multiple opportunities to watch old movies or talk shows -- and all this diversity of programming means television will no longer provide a shared national experience.

there... noticeable in rebuilding, resettlement, and cross-border visits for Christmas.

MILOS FOREMAN (mee-losh) talks about his life, filmmaking career and his latest project, directing "The People vs. Larry Flynt." Among his film credits: "Black Peter," "Loves of a Blonde," "Fireman's Ball," "Taking Off," "Visions of Eight," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next," "Hair," "Ragtime," Amadeus," "Valmont." FOREMAN won an Academy Award for Best Director for the film "Amadeus." FOREMAN was born in Caslav, Czechoslovakia and became an American citizen in 1975. He lives in New York. In 1993 he penned his autobiography "Turnaround."

- Daniel speaks with NPR's economic correspondent John Ydstie about who wins and who loses from the dollar's current strength. The winners, Ydstie says are European exporters; possible loosers, the U.S. auto industry.

reports on a unique musical contribution the pioneer Mormons made to western folklore -- music about the making of a new civilization... and about the trials the Mormons underwent for their beliefs.

in Tibet.

sports stories of the year. Among other things, they discuss golfer Tiger Woods, the story-book tale of the New York Yankees and their manager Joe Torre, the Chicago Bulls record breaking 72-win season and the success of female athletes at the summer Olympics in Atlanta.

One of President Clinton's top goals for his second term is to improve the nation's education system. NPR's Mara Liasson reports that in the coming year, the president will push for the passage of a college tuition tax credit and for federal funding of a national literacy program, in an effort to stop the slide of America's elementary and secondary schools.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that President Clinton's words about smaller federal government and greater state power have not matched his recent actions.