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NPR science correspondent Joe Palca visits with zookeepers at Washington's National Zoo to find out the answer to a listener's question -- why are flamingos pink?

of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, about the impact Hispanic voters had on this election.

Gene Johnson of member station WNYC reports on today's verdict in the Crown Heights federal civil rights trial. A jury in New York convicted two men for violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, who was killed during what police call a 'race riot' in 1991.

Commentator Fawn Fitzgibbon has been a home hospice nurse for 7 years. In that time she has learned that death comes relentlessly. Cutting a life short by suicide is to surrender, she says. To live each moment, despite the limits that an illness brings, is more than to shake a fist at death; it gives meaning to the life itself, she says.

CIA director John Deutch was at a town meeting in South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles yesterday. He was answering allegations that the agency introduced the crack cocaine trade there in the early 1980s. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on how that meeting went.

- As the military downsizes and defense spending decreases, many defense contractors are looking for ways to use their technology for non-military uses. NPR's Richard Harris visits one company that is applying its research to resolve a religious issue.

Liane Hansen speaks with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of the band hish (FISH) about their new album "Billy Breathes" (Elektra 61971-2) and the reative exercises that the band says keeps their music fresh. Phish is merica's best-selling band without extensive airplay.

Commentator Iain Guest - of the United States Institute of Peace - says what happened in Rwanda in 1994 was genocide, and we are facing a catastrophe in Zaire because we didn't take action then. He says this shows us why a policy to fight genocide...whenever and wherever it occurs...must be in place.

Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that the nation's capital has become the battleground for competing political scandals.

Scott speaks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about refugees caughtin the fighting between Rwanda and Zaire.