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to the Australian Parliament in Canberra and an earlier news conference.

how people's personalities change as they age.

Robert talks with Stephen Linton, chair of the Eugene Bell Foundation and a research associate at Columbia University, about the defection of Hwang Jang Jop (HWAHNG JAHNG JOPP) from North Korea. They discuss his role in the North Korean government, and what his defection means politically.

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first clear pictures of distant galaxies containing quasars. Quasars are the most violent events in the universe...and astronomers are surprised to discover that they come from rather ordinary looking galaxies. This discovery is forcing scientists to rethink their theories about quasar formation. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

National Transportation Safety Board officials are investigating the collision of two airplanes that occurred last night at an airport in Quincy, Illinois. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the fire from the collision left little behind, but earlier today federal officials located a cockpit voice recorder from one of the planes.

From Moscow, NPR's Andy Bowers reports that Russian President Boris Yeltsin has appeared on television, fifteen days after heart bypass surgery. He said he is in what he called "a fighting mood". He also told Kremlin officials they will be held accountable for their actions while he has been away.

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From Jerusalem, Laurie Neff reports on a new Israeli airstrike in Lebanon's Bekaa (beh-KAH) Valley, as a major debate on the wisdom of Israel's occupation of a "security zone" in southern Lebanon reaches a crescendo. The debate began in the wake of a helicopter crash in which 73 Israelies died. Some critics now say that the government should withdraw the troops it has maintained in Southern Lebanon since 1978. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to a withdrawal; many, including some from his own party, believe occupation of the Lebanese border area is no longer worth the cost in Israeli lives.

Critic Bob Mondello reports on the "indefinite postponement" of the Broadway premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical, "Whistle Down the Wind." This latest problem with a Lloyd Webber musical has many people asking if Sir Andrew's lost his touch. Mondello says that Lloyd Webber's overdue for a monster hit...and not to count him out just yet.

The World's small tribal languages are disappearing; of the 174 native american languages in the U.S., all but twenty are currently endangered. Reporter Mary Losure, of Minnesota Public Radio, visits the Mille Lacs reservation in central Minnesota where the Ojibwe are using money from gambling to develop a new program of teaching language to their children. The kids are learning Ojibwe on computer and by singing popular songs written especially for them.