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SCOTT SIMON HAS SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT SHORTSTOP CAL RIPKEN OF THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WHO, THIS WEEK, BROKE LOU GERHIG'S MONUMENTAL RECORD OF 2,130 CONSECUTIVE GAMES PLAYED THAT HAD STOOD SINCE 1939.

NPR'S MIKE SHUSTER REPORTS ON HOW LEGISLATION, WHICH HAS RECENTLY BEEN ADOPTED, IS AFFECTING AN INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO DEAL WITH THOUSANDS OF VIETNAMESE BOAT-PEOPLE IN REFUGEE CAMPS ACROSS SOUTHEAST ASIA.

Daniel talks with New Age musician Paul Winter who recently played his saxophone in Belt Woods Maryland, the site of the oldest forest on the East coast and the highest density of song birds in North America. Winter is playing with the birds of Belt Woods to try and raise awareness about the plight of the forest, who's owners, the Episcopal Church want to cut down.

Daniel talks with physicist Andrew Fracknoy (FRAK-noy)...about the discovery of a belt of comets on the edge of our solar system comprised of 200-million chunks of ice. The discovery was announced this week at an annual meeting of astronomers.

ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF POET AND ETYMOLOGIST JOHN CIARDI, WHO DIED IN 1986 AT THE AGE OF 69, WE HEAR A MORNING EDITION COMMENTARY BROADCAST IN APRIL, 1983 BY NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO'S "MAN ABOUT WORDS."

NPR's Renee Montagne reports from Los Angeles on ecent developments in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The prosecution is anxious o get the case to the jury within the next two weeks.

Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes last week's winner and challenges ur listeners with a new puzzle. 6:46 This week's on-air player lives in Rodney, Michigan and listens to WCMU, Mount lea

Reporter Karen Michel (mee-shell) visits the North American resh Water Fish Museum, Shrine and Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wisconsin and ncounters a giant "muskie".

The PUZZLE INTERNET ADDRESS is puzzle@npr.org.

THE BROADCAST JOURNALISM PROGRAM AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY IN UTAH HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL IN PRODUCING LOCAL ANCHORS FOR TELEVISION NEWS...SO SUCCESSFUL THAT IT HAS BEEN CALLED AN "ANCHOR FACTORY." SCOTT SIMON VISITS THERE TO FIND OUT IF SOUND JOURNALISM IS ALSO PART OF THE PROGRAM, OR IF IT IS ALL JUST FOR SHOW.