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Storyteller Kevin Kling remembers a Christmas from his childhood... when his eager anticipation turned into performance anxiety: he suddenly had to demonstrate his ability to fly a gas-powered model airplane in front of his father -- a real pilot.

in one of the most talked-about photographs of all time. The picture was of her as a nine-year-old child running naked and screaming from her Vietnamese village after a napalm attack. She will take part in ceremonies Monday, Veterans Day, at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington.

A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that dietary suppliments of the trace element selenium protect against cancers of the lung, prostate and colon. NPR's Vicky Que reports that researchers involved in a 13-year investigation of a possible link between selenium and skin cancer found no protective effect but they did find that the research subjects had a 37 percent reduction in the incidence of lung, prostate and colon cancers after only 4 1/2 years.

against the Yen is causing Japanese businesses to look hard at their overseas investments and wonder whether it is cheaper to start doing more business at home again.

The preliminary results of a new measurement of the so-called Hubble Constant, taken by radio telescopic means at Cambridge University in England is 42. The Hubble Constant determines the speed at which galaxies are receding from each other, and thus tells us the age of the universe from the time of the Big Bang. It so happens that Douglas Adams, in the book and radio series A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1978 had a massive computer calculate the meaning of life and the answer was: 42.

Commentator Mickey Edwards wonders whether Republicans will keep up their contentious adversarial relationship with the Democrats, or whether 1997 will bring a new era of cooperation.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with E.J. Dionne, columnist at the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and William Maynes, Editor of Foreign Policy Journal at the Carnegie Endowment about what President Clinton's second term might hold for him..

Scott talks to Brendan Buckley, the marketing manager for The Irish Pub Company of Dublin, Ireland. The company sells ready-to-build Irish Pubs to countries all over the world.

Musicians and record companies stand to benefit year after year from the staying power of such albums... like Nat King Cole's " >Christmas Album", which has remained a favorite for nearly four decades.

Scott speaks with Jim Naydar, host and producer of W-B-E-Z's (Chicago) "The Annoying Music Show."