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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.

editor of "Inside Track" magazine, about what will be the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster, called "Superman: The Escape".

NPR's Chitra Ragavan talks to federal workers who went back to work today. Federal workers had been kept off the job first by the federal budget impasse, and then by the blizzard. With more snow on the way, and budget talks uncertain, the future remains up in the air.

on the situation he found there.

Guenivere Garcia is on death row in Chicago for the 1991 murder of her second husband. She is scheduled to die by lethal injection on January 17th. She has dropped all appeals and says she wants the state to end her life without delay. Garcia has endured sexual and physical abuse throughout her life. NPR's Edward Lifson reports that a number of groups opposing her execution say the state would merely be assisting in Garcia's suicide, while others say if Garcia wants to die, the state should grant her wish.

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.

speaks with Walter Mossberg, who writes about computers for the Wall Street Journal, about the troubles currently faced by Apple Computer. The company recently reported a $69 million dollar loss in it's last quarter, and is currently negotiating with at least one other computer company interested in buying it out. Mossberg says that the same culture which created Apple's many computer innovations, became arrogant and lost touch with what the competition was doing and with what consumers wanted.

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.

about the expanding political crisis in Colombia. This week Colombia's legislature begins an extraordinary session to deal with allegations that President Ernesto Samper accepted millions of dollars from the Cali drug cartel for his 1994 presidential campaign.

NPR's David Molpus reports that an estimated eight million working Americans are now -- or soon will -- be providing substantial care for an elderly relative. For most people, providing care while continuing to work is stressful. Now, some employers are taking steps to ease the burden of providing care for elderly relatives.