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This Sunday NBC will broadcast an all-star two-part adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels. Ted Danson has the title role and reviewer Ken Tucker says the production features outstanding special effects, is funny, and remains true to its satiric source.

Noah talks to the BBC's Chris Nuttal about a group of rebel Chechens who hijacked a Russian ship today in Turkey and are holding the passengers hostage.

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Liane Hansen speaks with Mike Phillips, head of the Gray Wolf estoration program in Yellowstone Park. One of the wolves was shot by park fficials this past week, but Phillips says this does not indicate a failure of he program.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that U.S. relations with China appear to be heating up again, just in time for the U.S. presidential election.

Harriet Baskas takes us on visit to the extraordinary rock garden that Milton Walker started in his Seattle back yard back in the 1950s. He worked on it for more than 30 years, and today it's an acknowledged national landmark. This isn't your average backyard rock garden. We're talking about massive concrete walls inlaid with semi-precious stones and glass, minature mountain ranges and lakes, and a twenty foot high tower.

hostage crisis in the Russian region of Dagestan.

caucus venues in Iowa. He reports on the debate and the issues on the minds' of voters at a Des Moines City precinct.

Robert talks with Linda Wertheimer who is in New Hampshire following the campaign. She assesses the mood of Granite State, as well as the fortunes of the Republican presidential candidates in the run-up to the state's primary next week.

A conversation about legendary pool player Minnesota Fats who died this morning at his home in Nashville. Noah talks with Jim Murray, who's a columnist with the Los Angeles Times.