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Poet and commentator Andrei Codrescu offers a meditation about the human body.

Jason Beaubien reports on President Clinton's return to New Hampshire, the state he credits with giving him the momentum to say in the 1992 Presidential race. Clinton used today's speech in Dover to talk about the social and economic improvements of the last eight years.

As the controversy over the use of Depleted Uranium weapons heats up in Europe, NPR's David Kestenbaum takes a long hard look at what the science says - and doesn't say - about the possible health risks.

Scientists often use genetically modified mice to study human diseases. It's a very big leap to take the research from Mice to Humans. Now scientists have created a genetically modified rhesus monkey.

Following the shooting on the set of Rust, NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Maryann Gray, founder of Accidental Impacts, a support group for people who have caused accidental deaths or injury.

Dave Hirschman, reporter for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and author of Hijacked: the Heroes of Flight 705, joins Robert by phone to talk about the new arrangement between Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service. (4:30) Hijacked: the Heroes of Flight 705, is published by William Morrow, 1998.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on President-elect Bush's selection of a new Labor Secretary-designate and a US Trade Representative-designate. Elaine Chao is being tapped to follow Linda Chavez, who withdrew her name for the Labor Department. Robert Zoellick is in line for U.S. Trade Representative. At a news conference today, Bush also defended two other nominees, saying he will stand by John Ashcroft for Attorney General and Gayle Norton for Interior Secretary.

Californians braced for rolling blackouts today as a major coastal storm delivered another blow to a state reeling from tight supplies of electricity. Energy officials declared their highest level power emergency, meaning that entire neighborhoods could lose power for an hour at a time to ease the strain on the system. Officials said as many as two million residents could be affected. The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant north of Los Angeles cut back to 20 percent of normal output because of the storm. Scott Horsley reports.

Gene Autry's ubiquitous theme song never got old for 'the Singing Cowboy,' remaining a mainstay for his entire career as an actor, singer, and owner of the Anaheim Angels.

The story behind the ground breaking hit from the Godfather of Soul, James Brown.