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Liane Hansen speaks with film director Terry Gilliam about is most recent film, "12 Monkeys." Gilliam discusses how the eclectic film ame to be made, as well as his experiences directing noted film star Bruce illis.

35 YEARS AGO JOHN F.KENNEDY HELD THE FIRST LIVE TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL NEWS CONFERENCE. WE PLAY A FEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM THAT CONFERENCE.

A conversation with a good samaritan in Philadelphia. Linda Wertheimer talks to Gina Licciardello (Litch-are-del-oh), who cooked pasta for a bus full of people - stranded by the snow for 17 hours - outside her South Philadelphia home.

FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON TESTIFIED BEFORE A GRAND JURY YESTERDAY ON WHITEWATER. NPR'S JON GREENBERG REPORTS.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the Senate debate today on the stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government operating through March 15th

Hillary Rodham Clinton is appearing before a federal grand jury today, the first First Lady to give testimony in such a forum. We talk with NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg about why the independent counsel has subpoenaed Mrs Clinton in the Whitewater investigation and what questions she's being asked.

We hear from young people around the country who were schoolchildren when the Challenger exploded. They describe how the disaster changed their views of NASA and the government, and how the deaths of Christa McAuliffe and the other astronauts shocked them into realizing that life was easily lost.

Just who owns jazz? Does it come from an African source? Or is it the result of a confluence of cultures in this country? Saxophonist Archie Shepp believes that jazz belongs to black people, culturally, and that it should be theirs financially too. More from reporter Deal Olsher, on jazz business and jazz history.

Virginia Biggar reports on one of the biggest anti-pollution efforts in the country: reformulated gas. It's the world's cleanest burning auto fuel for the general market, and it goes on sale next June. Introducing it statewide will do as much to reduce air pollution as removing 3.5 million vehicles from state roads.

who change jobs or get laid off, to maintain their health insurance. Two of the bill's sponsor, Republican Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, and Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, are trying to move it onto the Senate floor for a vote.