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From Los Angeles, NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports on an unusual American success story in cracking the Japanese automobile market: Latino business people are exporting to Japan the American automotive icon known as the low-rider -- those souped-up hot rods with hydraulic suspensions and low-riding profiles. Del Barco reports that the low-riders, immortalized in films and rap music, have captured the imaginations of the Japanese, who are willing to pay big bucks for the customized cars.

Canada was the country that invented and developed the -chip, the device that can block programming on your television. The chip lready is in the testing phase in that country. NPR's Ann Cooper reports on eaction among the test groups to the V-chips, and the difficulty in oordinating a rating system between Canada and the U.S.

FOLKSBIENE: The Folksbiene (FOKES-bee-nah) Playhouse is the ountry's oldest and only Yiddish theater company. As part of the American alkers series, we hear from the company's president, 102-year old Morris Adler, nd leading actress Zypora Spaisman (zah-POOR-ah SPIZE-mahn). (The Folksbiene heater is located in Manhattan at 123 E 55 St.; 212-755-2231.)

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of the social security system -- an advisory panel will recommend this month that social security funds should be invested, one way or another, in the private financial markets...

of operating on elderly patients, and how with people living longer than before, procedures that previously would not have been considered, are now common place.

Noah talks with Kathy McCoubrey, from the Virginia Dalmatian Assistance League, about dalmatians as pets. Disney is releasing a new version of the movie, "101 Dalmatians" this Christmas season. There are reports of a surge in dalmatian breeding because many children will want them after seeing the movie. McCoubrey says dalmatians should be chosen carefully. They are very high-strung, and they need frequent exercise and plenty of space.

We hear excerpts from the ceremony at which President Clinton presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to astronaut Shannon Lucid today. Lucid holds the American record for spending the most time in space. She stayed in space for 188 days earlier this year.

which the state of Florida will try to help resolve. At Miami's request, Governor Lawton Chiles has sent advisors to assist the city to bring the budget into balance, as required by state law. Miami faces a $68-million shortfall in the current year.

Federal officials have determined that poverty isn't the only reason why many public housing projects in the United States have deteriorated into virtual war zones where drugs and crime plague residents. They believe that the architectural structure of the complexes may have something to do with it. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that government architects are exploring new designs for public housing to make them safer places to live.