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- Daniel talks with musician "Vinx." His real name is Vincent De Jean Parrette. He hails from Kansas City and at one time held the world record in the track and field event called the triple jump. He was also on the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that fell victim to a boycott. Music Vinx says though has always been his love from the time he was a young boy playing the bongos in the closet of his parents home.

United Airlines faces another large debt payment Monday. The struggling airline is trying to persuade the mechanics union to take salary cuts to help stave off bankruptcy. The mechanics are the last holdout in a company-wide effort to reduce labor costs. Jay Field reports.

Health officials begin to speak of AIDS as a possible security risk. Some nations are so devastated that they may have trouble planting crops or fielding armies. On World AIDS Day, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with the Bush Administration's Jack Chow and the U.N.'s Stephen Lewis.

A congressional deadline for the airline industry to screen all luggage is fast approaching, but the industry doesn't have enough machinery to automate the process. Hand searches will be necessary, and are likely to cause new travel delays. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with David Field of Airline Business magazine.

Robert Siegel talks with John Aglionby, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Guardian about the massacre of 118 Madurese people on the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo. Ethnic tension between the Dayak and Madurese people is the cause of the conflict. The Dayak are natives to Borneo and are mostly subsistence farmers. The Madurese migrated to Borneo as part of a government policy and are mostly traders and shop owners. Several hundred Madurese were slaughtered in a field after they had boarded trucks and thought they were being evacuated to the island of Madura.

A Here & Now tradition, we revisit Robin Young's trip to see the snow geese in Vermont with her now late uncle Lachlan Maclachlan Field.

The upcoming Super Bowl on Sunday makes longtime sports columnist Clark De Leon think about how sports fans in the city of brotherly love can sometimes be, well, a little passionate. It all goes back to a winter's day in 1968, when fans attacked Santa Claus at Franklin Field.

As Iraq fields its first Olympic team since the ouster of Saddam Hussein, its athletes are excited about taking part. But the team is small, and its participation is likely to be more symbolic than athletically significant. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.

Damage estimates of the four hurricanes that have hit Florida this season put the costs as high as $20 billion. Damages from Hurricane Jeanne, which struck over the weekend, are estimated at $5 billion to $8 billion. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Greg Fields of The Miami Herald.

The Oakland Athletics, whose current home field is the aging Oakland Coliseum, are confirmed to be moving to Las Vegas in a few years.