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NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the $500 million missile defense system, to be funded by the US and Israel, which is designed to protect Israel from weapons of mass destruction. After meeting with Prime Minister Shimon Perez, U-S Defense Secretary William Perry also said the U-S would be willing to station U-S troops in the Golan Heights to guarantee peace.

Surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross CHRIS GIANNOU (YAW-new). For almost 15 years he has been a surgeon in war torn parts of the world in Burundi, Somalia, and in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. As such he has seen the devastation on human beings from landmines GIANNOU is currently leading the Red Cross's campaign for a ban on anti-personnel landmines worldwide, which kill or injure hundreds of civilians each week. (GIANNOU has been on the show a number of times. He wrote a memoir in 1994 about his work in the refugee camp, "Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut." (Published by Olive Branch

Daniel speaks with Ernie Manuelito and Cal Tuchin of radio station KTNN in Window Rock, Arizona...about tonight's first-ever broadcast of a Super Bowl in the Navajo language.

caucuses and how they might affect Bob Dole's prospects for winning the Republican Presidential nomination. Arnold has been on the campaign trail in both Iowa and New Hampshire with Dole and other Republican candidates.

3: Sculptor DUANE HANSON died on Saturday in a Baca Raton hospital in Florida at the age of 70. The cause was non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, according to the The Miami Herald. We'll hear an interview with Hanson conducted in 1990. Hanson was known internationally for his life-size super-realistic sculptures of people. His sculptures are so life-like that a museum worker in Florida once called the fire department for help when one of Hanson's sculptures failed to respond to his attempts to get her attention. Hanson was born in Alexandria, Minn in 1925.

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Satire from Harry Shearer.

Patrick Cox of member station W-B-U-R reports from coastal Massachusetts on the snow's impact and concerns about high tide and coastal flooding.

Danny goes to the National Zoo here in Washington to examine efforts to teach orangutans how to communicate with humans. The zoo has developed an exhibit called "The Think Tank". We meet with Rob Shumaker, one of the key researchers at The Think Tank who shows us how he's teaching the orangutans a new, specially developed language of symbols. The hope, Shumaker says, is that one day the orangs will learn enough of this symbolic language that communication between humans and primates would be possible, at least on a limited basis.

due to go before the Supreme Court today on the copyright relating to computer software. >