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A study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates that dietary suppliments of the trace element selenium protect against cancers of the lung, prostate and colon. NPR's Vicky Que reports that researchers involved in a 13-year investigation of a possible link between selenium and skin cancer found no protective effect but they did find that the research subjects had a 37 percent reduction in the incidence of lung, prostate and colon cancers after only 4 1/2 years.

against the Yen is causing Japanese businesses to look hard at their overseas investments and wonder whether it is cheaper to start doing more business at home again.

The preliminary results of a new measurement of the so-called Hubble Constant, taken by radio telescopic means at Cambridge University in England is 42. The Hubble Constant determines the speed at which galaxies are receding from each other, and thus tells us the age of the universe from the time of the Big Bang. It so happens that Douglas Adams, in the book and radio series A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1978 had a massive computer calculate the meaning of life and the answer was: 42.

Commentator Mickey Edwards wonders whether Republicans will keep up their contentious adversarial relationship with the Democrats, or whether 1997 will bring a new era of cooperation.

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr spoke with E.J. Dionne, columnist at the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, and William Maynes, Editor of Foreign Policy Journal at the Carnegie Endowment about what President Clinton's second term might hold for him..

Scott talks to Brendan Buckley, the marketing manager for The Irish Pub Company of Dublin, Ireland. The company sells ready-to-build Irish Pubs to countries all over the world.

Musicians and record companies stand to benefit year after year from the staying power of such albums... like Nat King Cole's " >Christmas Album", which has remained a favorite for nearly four decades.

Scott speaks with Jim Naydar, host and producer of W-B-E-Z's (Chicago) "The Annoying Music Show."

Scott talks to George Campbell, a descendant of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of "Anne of Green Gables". It has become quite common for Japanese citizens to fly to Charlottestown, Prince Edward Island, Canada to get married where the fictious Anne was married in the book.

Scott speaks with writer Lee Smith about her experience teaching adult literacy students creative writing at the Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky, and with one of her students there, Florida Slone, about how she feels finally being able to write down her songs and stories.