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Rock critic KEN TUCKER picks the best pop music of 1994. He reviews his ten favorite new albums: The Mavericks, "What a Crying Shame" (MCA); Sam Phillips, "Martinis and Bikinis" (Virgin); L7, "Hungry for Stink" (Warner Bros.); Joni Mitchell, "Turbulent Indigo" (Warner Bros.); Pearl Jam, "Vitalogy" (Epic); Liz Phair, "Whip-Smart" (Atlantic); Sugar, "File Under Easy Listening" (Rykodisc); Oasis, "Definitely Maybe" (Sony); Madonna, "Bedtime Stories" (Warner Bros.); and Pretenders, "Last of the Independents" (Warner Bros.). His runners-up include Sheryl Crow's "Tuesday Night Music Club", Richard Thompson's "Mirror Blue", and Mark Chesnutt's, "What a Way to Live". TUCKER plays some samples of the top ten and talks about what's alternative and what's mainstream.

2: Writer STEPHEN CARTER. He's a professor of constitutional law at Yale University and author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby." CARTER's newest book, "The Culture of Disbeleif: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion" (Harper Collins), argues that although the majority of Americans are religious, our law, politics, media, and universities pressure believers to trivialize their faith and treat "God as a Hobby."

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews "The Beverly Hillbillies," the movie version of the popular TV series, starring Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin and Jim Varney.

2: Correspondent for CBS's Sunday Morning and the Sunday edition of CBS Evening News, BILL GEIST. (pronounced like "Heist"). He's been a Little League coach for over 10 years and has written a funny book about it, "Little League Confidential: One Coach's Completely Unauthorized Tale of Survival." (Dell).

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film, "Widow''s Peak," starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, and Natasha Richardson.

Retired Astronaut and former test pilot ALAN SHEPARD. He was America's first man in space in 1961; the voyage covered 302 miles and lasted 15 minutes. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface. (In 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon). Early in his space career, SHEPARD was diagnosed with an inner ear syndrome which could have ended his career. SHEPARD grounded himself in 1963 and became Chief of the Astronaut Office. Later, after a risky operation took care of his ear problem, SHEPARD returned to flight status, becoming commader of the Apollo 14. SHEPARD has co-written a new book: "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon." (Turner Publi

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Religion historian MARTIN MARTY. Marty, who teaches at the University of Chicago, is one of the foremost authorities on religion and society. He's the author of a four volume work on religion in the 20th century. In 1992 he published the first volume of a multi-volume look at fundamentalism, "The Fundamentalism Project." (The University of Chicago Press). That's when Terry talked with him. He has since published three other volumes; the fifth and last volume in the project will be published next year. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 2

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2: CARYL PHILLIPS, author of five novels, a work of nonfiction and many scripts for film, theater, radio and television. His new novel,"Crossing the River" (Knopf), tells stories of slavery and the relationships forged by and among some of its perpetrators and victims. PHILLIPS takes liberties with time in following the lives of three African children sold into slavery by their desperate father -- one freed and sent back to Africa as a missionary, one searching for her lost husband and child in the American wild west and one, a World War II GI stationed in Yorkshire, England. PHILLIPS was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, but was brought up and presently lives in England.