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A year ago today, Zapatista rebels began their uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Since then, there has been an assisination, the economy nosedived and peso was dramatically devalued. Daniel talks to NPR's David Welna in Mexico City about one of the worst years in the country's history.

This is the first of four reports featured this half hour about what changes the country expects from the new Republican congress to be sworn in this week. In Boston, Anthony Brooks of member station WBUR examines the promises the new congress has made to reform welfare and what it may mean to people who now depend upon it.

A year end review of many of the voices in the news from 994.

In the first of a two part conversation, Liane Hansen talks ith jazz pianist and composer Keith Jarrett. In a rare interview at the usicians' home in rural southern New Jersey, Jarrett talks about his latest ive jazz trio album, "AT THE DEER HEAD INN" (ECM 1531).

Daniel talks with author Jayne Anne Phillips about her latest novel "Shelter," which takes place at a summer camp in West Virginia. Phillips writes vividly and poetically about the experiences of adolescent girls at the camp ... a place of seeming innocence but one in which passion, danger and perversity all emerge to change their young lives forever.

During the mid-term elections there was a great outcry for less government in people's lives. NPR's John Burnett talks to small business owners in Texas, who hope the new Republican-majority Congress will mean less red tape.

With Algeria in civil crisis and similar fundamentalist prisings brewing in Egypt, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, NPR's Sunni Khalid SOO-nee KAH-lid) examines U.S. policy and response to political Islamic ctivity.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that astronomers have seen the oldest alaxy ever discovered. It's called "8C 14-35," and astronomers estimate it to e 15-billion light years away, and 150 to 200-thousand light years wide. James raham and his colleagues at the University of California/Berkeley saw the alaxy through an infrared telescope at Mauna Kea (MAHN-uh KAY-uh), Hawaii. They eport their findings in the current isssue of the Astrophysical Journal.

Jacki talks to Mindy Cameron of the Seattle Times, Tom Bray of the Detroit News, and Nick Monsurat of the Burlington (VT) Free Press about the first 100 days of Congress.