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NPR's Elizabeth Arnold assesses Republican presidential andidate Bob Dole's prospects for success in the upcoming Iowa caucus. Dole is urrently the front runner.

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Linda talks with Mark Souder (SOW-der), Republican freshman from Indiana, about the Contract with America. Souder says it is time for the Republicans to regroup and go to a fallback strategy. He says that the Republican leadership has been too accommodating, and that individual members of Congress should vote independently, even if it causes tension within the party.

as the number of African-Americans dwindles and the number of Latinos rises.

Reporter Nick van der Puy [PIE, like apple] visits the workshop of Ferdy Goode [FUR-dee GUDE] in the northwoods of Wisconsin. Goode makes old-fashioned snowshoes, by hand -- out of ash and woven rawhide.

British authorities are reporting an explosion aboard a bus in central London shortly before 6 p.m. eastern time. Danny talks with NPR's Michael Goldfarb.

by President Yeltsin declaring his candidacy for this June's election.

Robert remembers musicologist and composer Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, who died yesterday at the age of 86. Eisenstein was the eldest daughter of Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, the founder of the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism. In 1922, she became the first girl to have a Bat Mitzvah, today a common rite of passage among non-Orthodox Jewish girls.

the cities to their homes for New Year celebrations.

week's Arizona primary. Arizona has 39 delegates to send to the Republican convention.