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Jacki talks to Marin Hopper, a fashion editor at Elle magazine, about the return of the spike heel. Hopper says that very high heels are very flattering to the leg and are very glamorous, but they take a lot of energy to wear and can be bad for your feet.

In the final installment of the NPR series 'The Subject is Sex,' Reporter Ginger Miles describes how her expectations of adulthood as a college student were very different from the way things turned out.

NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, reviews the little-noticed movie about the troubled marriage of poet T.S. Eliot and his wife, Vivian. It's already garnered two Oscar nominations.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the presidential candidates opening season. The top Republican hopefuls appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows just before kicking off the 1996 run for the White House.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on a proposal that several governors have put together which would define how hundreds of federal programs could be combined into a handfull of blockgrants. The proposal would limit the funds going directly from Washington to cities.

Jacki talks to Ken Khachikian, who worked on President Reagan's State of the Union address in 1987. He says that President Clinton has an opportunity to take control of the direction of the country when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, and that it could also be the beginning of his re-election campaign.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that both the Republican and Democatic Natinal Committees are meeting this weekend to strategize about the future of their parties.

NPR's Tom Cole reports on the debate over continued funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. Congressional hearings on NEA funding are due to begin next week

Daniel talks with Lawrence Fuchs, professor of American studies at Brandeis University, about his proposals to help resolve the current debate over affirmative action programs. Fuchs proposes limiting affirmative action programs to native-born American blacks because of the country's historical debt to this minority. He also proposes phasing out affirmative action programs for other minorities over the next five to ten years and strengthening anti-discrimination laws to protect their gains.

Craig speaks with Dr. Irwin Hyman, author of the book The Case Against Spanking. Dr. Hyman says if the United States banned spanking, the incidence of violence and child abuse would decrease. He strongly criticizes the continued use of corporal punishment in many school districts.

Jackie talks to Charles Hall, an Advertising executive who has launched his own campaign to try and combat date rape. He is distributing evocative posters with the words "this is not an invitation to rape me" written in the centre. Hall launched this campaign after a female friend was attacked following his 30th birthday party. He will be releasing television and radio commercials later this year.

NPR's Margo Adler reports on the aftermath of yesterday's vote that ousted the NAACP's chairman. The new chair, Myrlie Evers-Williams, inherits an organization that is deep and debt and whose image has been tarnished by allegations of mismanagement.

This past week, dieters learned some bad news: even if you lose weight, your body will still fight to return to its old weight. Gwen Machsai reflects on the endless battle over weightloss.

Jamey Turner is many things. He's a professional clarinetist, he plays the wrench harp and the musical saw. He's also well known as one of those few individual who can actually make music from a table loaded with brandy snifters half filled with water...an instrument known as the glass harp. Joe visits with Mr. Turner to talk about just how all of this comes together to create music that is both beautiful and ethereal.

Daniel talks to Gregory Williams, author of the book, "Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black." The book deals with Williams' discovery, as a ten-year-old Virginia schoolboy during the 1950's, that his father was really black and he, therefore, was also black. Williams recounts his ostracism from white society, his personal conflicts and his ultimate embrace of his black identity.

Surgeon General nominee Henry Foster today disputed the latest charges against him and denied any knowledge or involvement in the notorious Tuskegee Experiment. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

As the House prepares to vote on rolling back the "Great Society" welfare programs of the 1960's and to give states the power to run their own assistance programs, one state-based program -- child support enforcement - is likely to become a federal one. NPR's Peter Kenyon examines this exception to the devolutionary trend.

Daniel talks with Bowdoin College economics professor Rick Freeman about how one goes about doing a cost benefit analysis. The Republicans would like to pass legislation that could require such an analysis for every federal law that would have a major economic impact. Mr. Freeman explains exactly how the process works.

Daniel visits an exhibit of household items from Elizabethan England at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. Curator Leena Cowan Orlin says that it's relatively easy to imagine what life was like back then because a detailed inventory was kept of every item in the home.

A powerful House subcommittee has voted to kill a program that helps poor people with AIDS pay for housing. NPR's Vicky Que examines the Republican rationale for the vote, as well as warnings from AIDS activists that the measure is likely to throw thousands of infected people into shelters, increasing the danger of tuberculosis in those facilities.

On this the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Daniel talks to Frank Snepp, an analyst for the CIA in Viet Nam about the final hours of the American pullout from that city.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports from Los Angeles on how much the O.J. Simpson trial is costing. No one knows how long the trial will take, but cost estimates now are about 700-thousand dollars a month.

- Danny speaks with Walter Adams, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, about corporate mergers and takeovers. This week, Lee Iacocca and Kirk Kerkorian mounted a bid to takeover the Chrysler Corporation, an effort that recalls the merger mania of the 1980's. Adams says corporate takeovers, by and large, don't do the country any good, for they don't as a rule add to the productivity and creativity of the economy.

Daniel talks with Mark Kincaid who until recently worked for the Texas Office of Public Insurance Counsel (OPIC) - an independant state agency that monitors how insurance companies operate. OPIC recently conducted a survey of insurers doing business in Texas on those companies confidential underwriting guidelines. In many cases, Kincaid says, insurance companies will disqualify applicants for seemingly groundless reasons, such as working in casinos or beauty parlors.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports from the United Nations that Iraq 's speaker of parliament today rejected a UN offer to allow Iraq to sell oil to finance the purchase of emergency humanitarian supplies. Ever since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq has been barred from selling its oil on the world market. The embargo was imposed by the United Nations, and once the Gulf War ended, it stayed in place...leverage to force Iraqi compliance with Security Council resolutions regarding weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions have hurt the Iraqi people, and yesterday, the U.N. Council told Iraq it could sell two billion dollars worth of oil to help finance purchases of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies. Today, Iraq rejected the U.N. move, and launched a new anti-American propaganda drive.