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NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports on a group of renegade advertisers who are breaking with the pack to OPPOSE pitching tobacco to children. Last August, the FDA established new limits on cigarette advertising. The tobacco and ad industries have formed a coalition to fight those limits. Now this breakaway group is launching an ad campaign to convince their advertising compatriots to get behind the government.

is undergoing heart by-pass surgery.

which is putting three Martian meteorites on sale later this month .

about his new book " >Haunted Places" that lists more than 2,000 places in the country widely believed to be either haunted, associated with supernatural occurrences or UFO landings.

and opponents over a researcher's findings on concealed weapon laws. The study says that the 31 states allowing its citizens to carry concealed guns have a decreased rate of violent crimes.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Goma, Zaire that shelling forced the suspension of the first attempt to deliver aid to the city today. Relief groups stopped passing out food after four shells slammed into the city. The shells presumably were fired by Rwandan Hutu rebels holed up in a refugee camp outside Goma. The attack came after Zairean Tutsi rebels--who control Goma--fired on an unidentified plane which flew over the city. The incidents underline how hard it will be to organize a massive aid effort for the one million mostly Rwandan refugees stranded by the recent fighting in eastern Zaire.

Robert Dornan now looks as if he's lost his bid to return to Congress for a tenth term. Latina challenger Loretta Sanchez is ahead by close to 1,000 votes, a week after the election, with only two or three thousand absentee and provisional votes still to count. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that it was absentee ballots and a strong Latino vote that overturned the fiery conservative in his equally conservative Orange County, California. Dornan is threatening to challenge the results, claiming that Democrats may have signed up ineligible immigrant voters.

a steady downturn in the rate of death from cancer in the United States since 1991. The decline is being attributed to a reduction in smoking, earlier cancer detection, and improved treatments.

of the gubernatorial races.

Robert talks to George Stephanopoulos about the reshuffling of President Clinton's cabinet for his second term. Defense Secretary William Perry, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor and Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary are expected to announce their resignations formally soon, and other cabinet members may follow suit. They'll also talk about the President's agenda for the next four years, and the significance of the split between male and female voters in their support for him.

Noah talks with pollster Andy Kohut about voter turnout, and who is actually voting and who is not.

President Clinton's east coast campaign.

about the ethnic and tribal conflicts that have rocked central Africa in recent years.

backed away from its promised reform of Mexico's electoral system.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on a controversial National Park Service project to remove wild ponies from the outer banks of North Carolina. The Park Service says the ponies are destroying the island's natural vegetation; animal rights activists are worried about the ponies' precarious futures.

Commentator Malcolm MacKinnon likes walking around the house at night, with the lights of his electronic appliances all around him. He says they're a comforting reminder of living in the modern age, and guide him around the darkened rooms like small beacons.

Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the latest Barbra Streisand movie, "The Mirror Has Two Faces." He says that Streisand is sticking with a role she's played in several movies, that of ugly-duckling-turns-to-swan, and to be honest, it's getting a little tiresome.

NPR's David Molpus reports that the South, like the rest of the nation, produced mixed messages as far as electoral results are concerned. Democrats picked off a couple of Republican freshman in the House, but Republicans did better in open seats...and the GOP also picked up 2 Senate seats in Arkansas and Alabama. Meanwhile, black candidates who used to represent majority-minority districts did better than expected--despite redistricting, all five won relection, including Cynthia McKinney of Georgia.

in mutual funds. Today, she examines the complexities of assessing risk.

The school district in Cleveland, Ohio is in trouble. The district has been taken over by the state...and now parents, educators and students are involved in a new experiment that many say will save the system. Others say the program will kill the public schools altogether. Poor families are eligible for school vouchers which can be used at private schools... even Catholic schools. This is the only voucher program in the country that includes Catholic schools, and voucher advocates are hoping it will prove their contention that public schools need competition if they're ever going to improve. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

NPR's Brian Naylor talks to Republican and Democratic consultants for an national overview of House races. In recent weeks, Republicans in a number of close races seem to have pulled ahead, and some political observers say the anti-incumbent sentiment that marked the 1992 election seems much-diminished this year.

- In the Hague, the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has sentenced a low-ranking soldier to 10 years in jail for his role in the massacre of 1,200 people and finished the trial of another defendent. Gillian Sharpe reports the second trial is far more complex, with questions of guilt and innocence clouded by emotional testimony and circumstantial evidence.

Daniel talks with Craig and Pat Enenbach (EHN-in-bahk), founders of the Omaha (Nebraska) Handicap Parking Patrol. The Enenbach's, along with about 45 volunteers, issue citations at cars parked illegally in spots reserved for the disabled. They have been empowered to do so by the Omaha police department. Twelve groups nationwide perform a similar function.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater recently had a nice long conversation with a wolf named "Miranda", much to the dismay of Daniel's own dogs.

more efficient lights and motors is becoming a big business in the corporate world. He visits a glass factory in North Carolina that's cut more than a million dollars from its annual budget...while improving productivity.