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Alan Cheuse reviews the recently re-printed historical novel "The Keepers of the House" by Shirley Ann Grau. Grau was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for this novel. The book is published by Louisiana State University and is part of the Voices of The South Series.

SCOTT SPEAKS WITH FORMER COSTA RICAN PRESIDENT OSCAR ARIAS ABOUT A NEW INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN HE'S HEADING -- LAUNCHED FRIDAY ON CAPITOL HILL HERE IN WASHINGTON, TO REDIRECT MILITARY SPENDING TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.

HORTICULTURALIST KETZEL LEVINE HAS SOME HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS FOR GARDNERS....AND AN ANSWER TO THOSE WHO QUESTIONED THE PROPRIETY OF HER LAST APPEARANCE ON OUR PROGRAM.

to return as a pre-condition for a lasting peace. But after nearly three decades of Israeli occupation, thousands of Israeli civilians now live on the Heights, and they don't want to leave.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on Texas Senator Phil Gramm, who has been campaigning for the Republican nomination for president for well over a year and the first big test comes Feb. 12 in the Iowa caucuses. That will be his chance to see if he can close the gap between himself and Senator Bob Dole, who is presumed to be well ahead of all the other GOP contenders. Gramm is confident he can show his candidacy gaining strength. With a message designed to win over fiscal and social conservatives, Gramm says he's the candidate best able to carry out the Republican agenda, and that the key to his viability is carrying out the promises his party made in 1994.

The suspended federal budget talks have reached at least one conclusion. Both sides will base their offers on assumptions about future economic trends as projected by the Congressional Budget Office. The director of the CBO, June O'Neill, came in as a Republican appointee, but NPR's Peter Kenyon says she has maintained the office's reputation for non-partisan forecasts.

NPR's Joe Palca explains 'sublimation,' the direct transition from a solid to a gas without any liquid phase. Snow, to some degree, disappears through this process.

conference of 1996. The President fielded numerous questions about the budget impasse with Congress and about allegations regarding Hillary Rodham Clinton's roles in Whitewater and in the White House travel office. The President also defended his decision to visit U.S. troops stationed in Bosnia.

2: Psychologist DONALD DUTTON is a pioneer in the study and treatment of abusive men. He is a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, and the director of the Assaultive Husbands Program in Vancouver, Canada. Recently DUTTON was an expert witness for the prosecution in the pretrial of O.J. Simpson. His new book (co-authored with Susan Golant) is The Batterer: A Psychological Profile (Basic Books). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES through THE HALF HOUR).

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