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designed to educate teenage fathers about the responsibilities of parenthood. He profiles Bobby Verdugo of Bienvenidos Families, who encourages teen fathers to support their children, both financially and emotionally.

Noah talks with Congressman Bill Richardson (D-3rd District of New Mexico) about how his promise of rice, a few jeeps and radios, and a health survey of rebel children, won the release of three Red Cross workers who had been held captive in Sudan for more than five weeks. The four jeeps, nine radios and five tons of rice came from the Red Cross stocks.

Linda talks with NPR's Howard Berkes about the defense and prosecution strategies in the Unabomber case. Kaczynski's lawyer has been trying to delay the trial as long as possible, and the prosecution may be trying to outflank him by trying to have his New Jersey trial take place before his trial for killing two people with explosives in California.

to require more stringent standards for reducing air pollution from ozone and tiny particles of soot. The EPA announced the proposals yesterday.

about why some people seem to be able to eat as much food as they want, without gaining weight. Americans typically put on about five to seven pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

NPR's Sunni Khalid reports on changes in the economy of Syria. The country has been governed by President Hafez al-Assad since 1970, and for most of that time the economy has been under his tight controls as well. But five years ago, the government enacted Public Law Number 10, which relaxed the government's control of production and trade. Since that time, Syrian consumers have had access to more foreign goods, and more Syrian-made products are for sale in the rest of the world.

of Arthur Miller's " >The Crucible."

Outdoor sculpture is part of the visible history of a town or city. Since 1991, a group called "Save Outdoor Sculpture" (S.O.S) has made its mission the conservation of this history -- from the effects of acid rain, pigeons, and graffiti artists. NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg spoke with members of S.O.S. when they met in Washington DC recently. Members from Philadelphia; Astoria, Oregon; and Washington, DC, say the conservation efforts have produced beautiful results. And the Mayor of Rock Hill, South Carolina, says the city ended up saving itself by saving its sculpture.

Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski makes an appearance... via satellite broadcast... in a New Jersey courtroom to answer charges that he killed a New Jersey advertising executive. Madeleine Brand of member station WBGO in Newark reports.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports that John Salvi, convicted of killing two health clinic workers in 1994, was found dead in his Walpole, Massachusetts prison cell today, the victim of an apparent suicide. Salvi killed the two people and wounded five others in the most serious anti-abortion violence in US history when he fired shots at 3 different abortion clinics. He claimed he was combatting an anti-Catholic conspiracy.

on TV and radio advertising. Many are concerned that the move will only encourage teens to switch from drinking beer and wine to drinking distilled liquor.

Robert talks with Charles Dick, researcher at the Conflict Studies Research Centre in England, about the state of the Russian Army. Dick's report is titled "A Bear Without Claws: The Russian Army in the Nineties." Dick says that while the Soviet Army was a relatively effective force, the Russian Army is corrupt and ill-prepared for crisis. Dick says severe hazing is endemic in the Russian Army, and an estimated three to four thousand servicemen die annually from non-combat causes. The article is published in a journal called "Geopolitique."

Noah Adams speaks with Madeleine Peyroux (pe-ROO), a twenty-two-year-old singer, who's just released her first CD, "Dreamland." Her career began on the streets of Paris when she was just 15 years old. She specializes in material from the 1920's, '30's and '40's including songs originally made famous by Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. While her style pays homage to the originators, Madeleine Peyroux adds her own unique imprint to the material.

in Singapore with plans to introduce free trade in computers and telecommunications products.

The Department of Energy is announcing a two-step plan to get rid of the nation's stockpile of plutonium waste. About 50 tons of the highly radioactive material have accumulated during the making of atomic bombs, weapons that are now being dismantled. NPR's Richard Harris reports on the government's plan to bury part of the waste and to combine the rest of it in fuel used by commercial nuclear plants.

For the first time in Russian history, voters used a referendum election to decide their future. NPR's Andy Bowers reports that they used the referendum ballot to stop plans for a Cerhnobyl-style nuclear power plant. The Russian Atomic Energy Ministry had wanted to finish a plant in Kostroma, 250 miles northeast of Moscow. Residents turned it down by a nine-to-one margin.

The National Transportation Safety Board meets this week in Florida to review all data collected about last May's ValuJet crash. Transcripts from cockpit voice recordings reveal that the pilots knew just how much trouble their craft was in. Investigators will also review results of the data analysis to try and repeat the condition that led to the fire that brought down the plane. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

Linda and Noah give suggestions for disposing of plutonium from over the years.

NPR's Rick Karr tells us how Chicago's Michigan Avenue is lit up every year for the holidays...a feat he can't seem to duplicate at his house.

Veta Christy reports on a decision by the Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power plant to close permanently. The nation's second oldest reactor was shut down in July due to safety concerns, but was scheduled to run for another 10 years. Analysts say the shutdown could signal big changes for the nation's utilities.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the United States and other nations are rethinking the scope and mandate of a proposed multinational military force for Zaire. The sudden return of about half-a-million Rwandan refugees over the weekend dramatically altered the humanitarian situation along the Rwanda/Zaire border. Rwanda says there is no longer a need for a force, but the US and others point out that there are still an estimated half-million refugees stranded elsewhere in Zaire, cut off from food and water by fighting between Zairean rebels and exiled Rwandan militias.

the Pope and Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The federal government is looking at a new generation of safety technologies for the airline industry. The effort follows a year in which scores of people died in two highly publicized crashes of TWA and Valuejet planes. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports the new safety measures could save lives, but the cost will be high and industry executives are worried about having to bear the burden.

Critic Bob Mondello sings the praises of Woody Allen's first musical "Everyone Says I Love You." It's a throwback to musicals of the 1930's.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology is located in Los Angeles. It is the creation of a visionary named David Wilson---who for the past decade has been displaying exhibits that stretch the boundaries of imagination and reality--the horn of a woman from the year 1688, a bat which can supposedly pass clean through solid objects, microminiature sculptures...including Snow White and her Seven Dwarfs on the shaft of a needle. Each exhibit is documented---and Wilson appears to believe that all of it is absolutely genuine and the stories surrounding them are true. Our guide through the museum is New Yorker Magazine writer Lawrence Weschler (WESH-lurr)---who chronicled this museum in his book Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders ---his audio portrait is produced by David Isay.