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over the preliminary injunction issued by a U.S. district court judge which prevents the enforcement of Proposition 209. The voter-approved measure bans racial preferences in hiring and selection processes in California.

NPR's Dean Olsher sends us an audio postcard from the lobby of a downtonwn Washington law firm. High-powered intellectual property lawyers sing Christmas songs alongside the guys from the mailroom. They sound great, for litigous amateurs.

Commentator Leonard Rosen compares himself and his family's holiday visits to the seasonal migration of birds, whales and other animals, whose instints force them to travel, sometimes hundreds of miles, to get "back home." In observing the travel patterns of millions of people during the holiday season, Rosen notes that people also have that instinctual urge to "get up, move, go back."

The federal government has released 50 years of previously classified data on the Arctic Ocean, collected by the U.S. and Russian armed forces. Some believe the data will provide new clues into how global climate has changed over the past half-century. NPR's David Baron reports.

where clashes between Milosevic supporters and his opponents have darkened Christmas day.

editor-in-chief of >Entrepreneur magazine, about hot business trends for 1997. She says, if you've been thinking of starting your own business, or if you're already your own boss, you might consider scenting your store with a citrus fragrance and stocking up on rollerblades and gardening tools.

of the delay in signing the Hebron accord and the shooting.

to examine the significance of North Korea's apology to South Korea this week.

to the federal judiciary with Professor Sheldon Goldman of the University of Massachusetts. Already, about one-fourth of all federal judges are Clinton appointees... and by the end of his second term, President Clinton will have appointed about one half of all federal district and appeals court judges.

NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports that President Clinton today announced his decision to waive for another six months a controversial provision of a law that tightens the U.S. embargo against Cuba. The president said he will once again suspend that part of the so-called Helms-Burton Law which would allow Americans who had property confiscated by the Cuban government to sue foreign firms doing business on that property today. Mr. Clinton said he expects to continue suspending this provision every six months, so long as America's European allies continue to pressure Cuba to improve its human rights record.