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SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH WRITER/PRODUCER SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH ABOUT HIS LATEST BOOK, THE PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS. THE BOOK IS ALSO THE SUBJECT OF A TBS CABLE SPECIAL BEGINNNING THIS COMING MONDAY. (THE PRIVATE LIFE OF PLANTS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS)

NPR'S MICHAEL GOLDBARB HONORS ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FILM MAKING.

Steve Rowland is a public radio jazz producer who is hite and Jewish, but looks black. This piece is a personal reflection on rowing up in our racially-divided country.

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NPR's David Molpus reports that, increasingly, corporate America is ready to lay off workers during the holiday season. While corporations say they're helping workers 'transition' out of their jobs, labor watchers say corporate America is no longer ashamed to openly treat workers as dispensible.

WE CORRECT A STORY WE RAN IN SEPTEMBER -- THOUGH NOT NECESSARILY DEFINITIVELY -- ABOUT WHO AIRED THE FIRST BEATLES SONG IN THE U.S.

Liane Hansen speaks with I. Bernard Cohen, ictor S. Thomas Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at Harvard niversity about his new book, "Science and the Founding Fathers" (Norton). ohen believes that science heavily influenced Jefferson, Madison, Franklin and thers, and you can see the evidence of that in the documents they composed. :32.

WE REPLAY, AS PART OF OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY OBSERVANCE, JOHN HOCKENBERRY'S 1986 STORY ABOUT A MAN WITH THE RARE BRAIN DISORDER TOURETTE'S (tur-ETTS) SYNDROME -- WHICH CAUSES INVOLUNTARY, AND OFTEN VULGAR, UTTERANCES IN THOSE AFFLICTED WITH IT.

Jacki speaks with writer Naomi Wolf, who has written an essay squaring her feminist philosophy with the fact that, when she got married, she was totally sucked into the idea of a traditional wedding, complete with Victorian-style wedding dress. The essay is called "Brideland," and appears in a new book called Being Real (Doubleday).

A sound montage of this past week's news including Presidents lija Izetbegovic (AHL-ee-uh iz-eh-BEG-oh-vich) and Bill Clinton and House peaker Newt Gingrich on the Bosnian peace plan; President Clinton and Senator obert Dole on the federal budget; Beatles' fans and the newly-released Beatles une "Free As a Bird"; Princess Diana on ebing in the royal spotlight; and music rom Junior Walker, who died this past week.