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2: Sportswriter MARK BOWDEN. He covered the Philadelphia Eagles for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" for three seasons, and now has a book about the team, "Bringing the Heat: A Pro Football Team's Quest for Glory, Fame, Immortality, and a Bigger Piece of the Action" (Knopf). The book follows the team through the 1992 season, after their coach was fired and after the death of their star defensive lineman, Jerome Brown.

Business Journalist MARK PENDERGRAST. His new book is "For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It." (Charles Scribners). In the book PENDERGRAST shows how Coca-Cola, a drink that's 99% sugar water, became the world's most widely distributed product, and a symbol for the Western way of Life.

Blues and R&B singer ETTA JAMES. She was a teenager when she was discovered by bandleader/talent scout Johnny Otis, who helped her record her first single, "Dance with Me Henry." Her career took off in the sixties, until she battled a drug addiction at the end of that decade. Although JAMES mostly sang R&B, she has just released "Mystery Lady," (Private Music) on which she covers songs by her favorite jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Biomedical ethicist ARTHUR CAPLAN. Among the topics Marty discusses with him are the right to die and the implications of the doctor-assisted suicides, specifically how Dr. Jack Kevorkianhas been helping patients die. Caplan is Director of Biomedical Ethics and a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery at the University of Minnesota

With songs like "Suzanne," "Bird on a Wire," "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen created his own brand of folk-rock art music. Listeners discovered Cohen's songs in the mid-'60s when Judy Collins recorded "Suzanne," and Cohen followed that by recording his own album of his songs. Cohen discusses his career with Terry Gross.

2: Journalist STEVE ROBERTS. He's the senior writer for "U.S. News & World Report." Before that he covered Congress for The New York Times. He'll talk with Marty about the 103rd Congress which just went into session. It's the most diverse group yet. ROBERTS will tell us what to expect.

In July 1957, Buddy Holly left Texas with only one record climbing the charts. Five months later, sporting capped teeth, a sharp suit, and horn-rimmed glasses, Holly debuted live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Like Elvis Presley only a year before, Holly had made it to prime time TV.

Lukas Foss is a pianist, a conductor and, perhaps most notably, a composer. Foss was born in Germany and was fifteen when his family immigrated to this country in 1937. Even before that he'd begun his prolific output as a composer and was recognized as a child prodigy on the piano.

2: Actor John Goodman, who now stars as Fred Flintstone in "The Flintstones". GOODMAN may be best known for his role as Dan Connor, a.k.a. Roseanne's husband, on the hit TV show "Roseanne." But he's been able to do what most cannot--carry on a successful film career and TV role at the same time. GOODMAN has appeared as a back-slapping traveling salesman who's also a demonic murderer in "Barton Fink," and as home run king Babe Ruth in "The Babe." (Rebroadcast from 3/26/93).