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CONFINEMENT FARMING...RAISING HUGE QUANTITIES OF ANIMALS HEADED FOR OUR DINNER TABLES IN VERY SMALL SPACES...IS BOTH BIG BUSINESS AND A BIG ISSUE IN NORTH CAROLINA -- ESPECIALLY AFTER A NUMBER OF INCIDENTS LAST YEAR IN WHICH LAGOONS FULL OF ANIMAL WASTE OVERFLOWED.

The 104th Congress officially begins its second session this week. But NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that with budget negotiations still at an impasse, lawmakers are expected to accomplish few legislative matters this session. Today, the debt limit was the issue going back and forth between the White House and Congress. House Majority Leader Dick Armey says House GOP will block raising the debt limit until the White House accepts much of their agenda.

that First Lady Hillary Clinton will testify before a federal grand jury in Washington on Friday. Her testimony was requested by Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Mrs. Clinton is expected to answer questions about billing records from her Little Rock law firm. A Senate committee sought those records for two years before they suddenly turned up earlier this month.

DRIVING TEST: Sixteen year-old essayist Tamara Keith relates her ecent harrowing experience of taking the California state driver's license est.

Essayist Lester Sloan relates the experiences of classical pianist arl Jerome Malry (MAL-ree). Malry was the first African-American to be nvited to participate in the pretigious International Tchaikovsky ompetition. Malry also shares a love of traditional jazz and blues.

Host Liane Hansen is joined by the Chicago Tribune's larence Page and Fred Barnes, executive editor of the Weekly Standard agazine, to discuss some of the major issues in this past week's news. Topics nclude Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement in both the Travel Office firings nd the Whitewater land deal, on-going attempts to balance the budget, and new merican Automobile Association guidelines for holding steering wheels.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH BRUCE STEIN OF THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, HEAD OF A GROUP OF 500 SCIENTISTS WHO JUST ISSUED A REPORT ON THE NATION'S AT-RISK SPECIES.

SIMON/ ANTARCTICA: IT RAINED THIS WEEK AT MCMURDO SOUND, ANTARCTICA -- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 24 YEARS!!! SCOTT GETS A WEATHER REPORT FROM ERIC CHANG AT MCMURDO. 2:45.

Danny talks with comedian Tracey Ullman about her new HBO series "Tracey Takes On..." which premiers Wednesday the 24th of January. In their conversation Tracey dismisses the idea that comedians are actually masking a great deal of personal pain. She says she loves what she does and entertains us with some of her favorite impersonations.

LIANE HANSEN