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NPR's Cheryl Devall reports from St. Petersburg, Florida - the site of two riots this fall. The city's racial divisions are deep and long-lived. Citizens in the city's black community fear the police; white residents say they don't understand the black community's frustrations.

Commentator David Greenberger proposes a new unit of measurement to gauge how old we are: dog lives. The average dog lives 12 years. A 12-year-old is one dog year old. A 25-year old is 2 Dog Years 1. This is an attempt to reverse the business of dog years - which translates each year into seven.

into allegations of rape and sexual misconduct at a Maryland base, and at posts around the world.

David Baron reports on a new class of drug called protease inhibitors... whose success has led many to think that the end of the AIDS epidemic is much closer.

South Korea today returned the remains of 24 North Korean infiltrators after North Korea apologized for trying to slip the men into South Korea by submarine in September. With that apology, Ted Clark reports that the way is clear for improvement of diplomatic, military and economic relations between the United States and North Korea.

on the safety record of commuter airlines, after last week's Comair commuter plane crashed near Detroit.

NPR's Edward Lifson reports from Belgrade that it appears today as if Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic is giving in to Opposition protesters. For nearly nine weeks, a coalition of demonstrators has been rallying against the Milosevic government. They have been protesting a decision in November that annulled the results of municipal elections. Today, the election commission, thought to be controlled by Milosevic, announced the Opposition had won the Belgrade city assembly and the country's second largest city, Nis (NEESH). This isn't a final decision, however, and the Opposition is still wary. Leaders say the demonstrations will continue.

NPR's John Ydstie concludes his series on reforming the social security system with an examination of the plan favored by the advisory council's chairman, Ned Gramlich. Gramlich's proposal occupies the middle ground between the other two plans. It also relies on the financial markets to boost retiree benefits, but without redirecting a large chunk of the payroll tax into personal retirement accounts.

Robert talks to David Courtwright, the author of the book Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City. Courtwright argues that young single men are the group most likely to commit violent acts and communities with a high ration of young single men have a violence rate that is much higher than the norm. In some frontier communities where mining and ranching were the main economic engines, there was a very high gender ratio... sometimes forty men for every woman...and as a result, also a very high violence rate.

Susan talks to business analyst Joe Nocera about the year in business.