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THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE HAS A NEW LEADER...SELECTED YESTERDAY...AND JUST IN TIME FOR NATO'S BIGGEST, MOST DANGEROUS MISSION YET -- KEEPING THE PEACE IN BOSNIA. SCOTT TALKS WITH FORMER US AMB TO NATO WILLIAM H. TAFT 4TH

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that the big blizzard has brought business throughout the region to a standstill. For northeastern retailers, the storm comes on top of several weeks of bad weather that has kept shoppers at home.

Leda (LEE-dah) Hartman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports on New Hampshire, the only state not to honor Martin Luther King with a day of his own. This year it gets a bit uglier, as a white supremacist group from Mississippi stages a demonstration at the statehouse.

NPR's John McChesney reports that many computers used by government and industry may stop working in the year 2000. The problem has to do with the fact that many of these computers record dates using only the last two digits of the year..and that if you enter zero zero for 2000...many of these machines will get confused.

SCOTT TALKS WITH OUR FRIEND SIMON HOGGART, WHO'S JUST RETURNED FROM CHINA WHERE HE'S BEEN REPORTING ON THAT COUNTRY'S RED-HOT ECONOMIC GROWTH...AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY.

over whether the Senate Whitewater Committee should continue beyond February. The Republicans want the committee to continue indefinitely, but the Democrats say the hearings are running way too long and that there's no need.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports that businesses throughout the area affected by the storm struggled to reopen today. Airports managed to resume operations, though officials warned it will be several days before the schedules return to normal. Meanwhile, more snow fell in the Washington, D.C. area, causing additional problems for commuters.

SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH TWO OF THE CANADIANS CENTRAL TO THAT COUNTRY'S POLITICAL DEBATE ABOUT HOW PROPOSALS TO BRING CANADA TOGETHER IN THE WAKE OF THE QUEBEC INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM ARE PLEASING NONE OF THE OPPONENTS OF PREMIER JEAN CHRETIEN'S GOVERNMENT...AND HOW THAT IMPASSE MIGHT BE RESOLVED.

SCOTT SIMON EXAMINES THE ORIGIN OF MANY WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HOLIDAY...AND SOME CHRISTMAS PUNS...WITH WORD SPECIALIST RICHARD LEDERER.

SCOTT VISITS ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S OLDEST MISSIONS FOR THE DOWN-AND-OUT, WHERE STRICT RULES ARE STILL THE RULE AND LISTENING TO A STERN SERMON IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THOSE SEEKING A MEAL.