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Comedienne and superstar ROSEANNE ARNOLD. Her show "Roseanne" debuted in 1988 and has consistently been a top TV series. She has often made news--she forced out the show's executive producer in a dramatic confrontation, she went public with accusations of incest, she performed a controversial rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" at a baseball game. In 1989, she published her first book, "Roseanne: My Life as a Woman" which became a best seller. Now she has written "My Lives" (Ballantine Books). In this latest memoir, ROSEANNE discourses on her life since "Roseanne" became a hit. She also writes about her past, her troubles with drugs, with her body image and with the press.

Authority on complementary cancer treatments MICHAEL LERNER. His book is called "Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer" (The MIT Press). LERNER believes that cancer patients are wise to use "whatever combination of conventional and complementary cancer therapies that makes sense to them." So he wrote this book to provide "credible maps and training in reading these maps" to patients "actually trying to traverse the forbidding landscape of cancer diagnosis and treatment." LERNER won a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for his work in public health in 1983. The research institute he founded, called The Commonweal Cancer Help Program, was recently featured on Bill Moyers' PBS series "Healing and the Mind.

After researching and writing about girl gangs, psychologist and criminologist ANNE CAMPBELL decided to tackle the question of why men commit the majority of violent crimes. In her book "Men, Women and Aggression" (Basic Books), Campbell says the key lies in what men and women think their own aggression means: control, or loss of control? REV. : Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the original cast recording of the Broadway show "The Who's Tommy."

DR. STUART LEVY is a professor at Tufts University Medical School, and has just written a book, "The Antiobiotic Paradox: How Miracle Drugs Are Destroying the Miracle," (Plenum). This book looks at the threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that are resulting from over-prescription of antibiotics. Dr. Levy is recognized internationally as an expert on resistance and as a critic of the widespread misuse of antibiotics. He is also president of the International Alliance for Prudent Use of Antibiotics. He has been profiled in "The New Yorker", and has also been quoted in Time Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Washington Post

Actor, comedian, filmmaker, and author MICHAEL PALIN. In the fall of 1988, PALIN recreated the journey Jules Verne described in "Around the World in 80 Days." PALIN turned his journey into a very successful 8-part TV BBC series. He is of course also known for his tenure as a member of Monthy Python's Flying Circus and his appearances in "The Missionary" and "A Fish Called Wanda." (REBROADCAST FROM 4

Photojournalist JAMES NACHTWEY (KNOCKT-way). He was in Somalia in October, and photographs of his visit were the cover story in The New York Times Magazine section on December 6, 1992. Terry talks with him about his trip to Somalia: why he took the pictures he did, how he was received, why he wanted to go, etc. NACHTWEY has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal three times. The award is the highest honor among photographers and is given to those for the "best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," and it entails a deliberate decision to go in harm's way. NACHTWEY is only the seond photojournalist to be given the award three times. He's been to areas of conflict in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank, Sudan, the Philippines, Northern Ireland and more. A book of NACHTWEY's photographs, "Deeds of War," was published in 1989 by Thames and Hudson.

Storyteller GARRISON KEILLOR. He's the host and writer of "A Prairie Home Companion" on National Public Radio--a show that "pokes at the heart of American sensibilities and sensitivities." His new book is called "The Book of Guys" (Viking). KEILLOR has written five other books including the best-seller "Lake Wobegon Days.

Journalists NICHOLAS KRISTOF and SHERYL WUDUNN were Beijing correspondents of "The New York Times" from 1988 to 1993. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. They have just written a book, "China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power" (Times Books). It explores the contradiction in China of a booming economy paired with terrible human rights abuses, as China struggles to be a new world power.

2: Journalist ROBERT CULLEN. He was Newsweek's Moscow bureau chief in the Soviet Union. He's also covered Russia for "The New Yorker," and "The Atlantic." He has a new book The Killer Department" (Pantheon). It's about one detective's eight year hunt for the man known as "the most savage serial killer in Russian history." CULLEN is also the author of, "Twilight of Empire: Inside the Crumbling Soviet Bloc," about the breakup of the Soviet Union.

World music commentator MILO MILES showcases guitarist Steve Tibbetts.