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Daniel talks with Richard Krimm, Associate Director for Mitigation at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) about how communities can reduce the damage caused by floods. His agency favors the "non-structural" approach to flood plain management. Krimm says that levees give people a false sense of security - levees often overflow. Rather than build more levees, he suggests building houses that can withstand floods or not building on flood plains at all. He says federal regulations and insurance requirements eventually will force people to comply with these suggestions

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on today's testimony at the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh. A publisher of a series of books on how to make a bomb described such a book that McVeigh owned.

NPR's David Welna reports that over the past month Mexico has expelled half a dozen foreign human rights workers. Until now, Mexico had always tolerated such visits. The crackdown is raising new questions about Mexico's human rights record, as President Clinton prepares to go there next week. A major US human rights group also issued a report this week condemning what it said are widespread human rights abuses in Mexico, especially in rural areas. NPR's David Welna reports.

to the opening of a county-funding natural healing clinic.

events in Washington, DC. Nearly a million people are expected for the festivities, which culminate Monday with the swearing-in ceremony for William Jefferson Clinton's second term.

In the first of two installments, Liane talks with Ken Auletta, columnist for The New Yorker and author of THE HIGHWAYMEN: Warriors of the Information Superhighway (Random House). The book features profiles of influential figures in the entertainment business, electronic communications, and information technology. Auletta has been writing the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker since 1992.

to be held in Washington, DC today. The meeting will bring together hundreds of people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds to discuss their differences. The Anti-Defamation League pulled out of the conference after learning that a minister from the Nation of Islam would take part.

Music reviewer Tom Moon takes a look at "Billy Breathes," the latest release from the heirs-apparent to the Grateful Dead...the rock band Phish (FISH). He says that their music has come a long way from the days of simple folk-tinged jamming, and their lyrics have now caught up to the rest of the technical abilities of the band. ("Billy Breathes" is the latest album from Phish, and is on Elektra Records.) (5:00) ((ST

Commentator David Brooks talks about the "Big Thinkers" tent on the National Mall that's part of President Clinton's second inauguration festivities. He says that neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have many "big ideas," and that they're making up for their lack of ideology by becoming scandal-mongers.

for adaptations to the rudders of the 737 airliner. The move follows two unsolved crashes of the world's most-used airliner because of suspicions that sudden rudder movements caused the plane to become uncontrollable.