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NPR's Ted Clark reports on the appearance made by Madeleine Albright at hearings on Capitol Hill today. President Clinton has nominated her as the next Secretary of State. If she is approved by the Senate, she would be the first woman in U.S. history to hold such a high office.

On the steps of the Supreme Court today, activists for both sides of the assisted-suicide issue held demonstrations while the Justices heard arguments. Members of the Hemlock Society, which advocates the right to suicide, debated disabled-rights activists who fear legalized suicide could lead to euthanasia. NPR's Phillip Davis reports.

Reporter Frank Browning remembers lawyer and activist Tom Stoddard, who advanced the cause of equal rights for gay men, lesbians, people with AIDS in this country. Stoddard headed up the Lambda Legal Defense and Education fund for six years, making it a nationally influential organization, fighting discrimination against homosexuals and AIDS patients in employment, housing, health care, insurance, family law, and military service.

The Dow Jones industrial average has gone up 500 points in the last six weeks. This rally is causing analysts to ask whether the market is overvalued, as they wonder when these gains will slow down or stop. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports.

Several thousand residents in the Northwest were without power this Thanksgiving. Noah speaks with Debbie Holte, from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, about the creative Thanksgiving she and her family put together. Since the power has been out for the last ten days, the family barbecued the turkey, cooked the potatoes on a wood stove, and built snowmen outside the house.

special assistant to the new U.N. Secretary General, about the challenges facing Kofi Annan.

Gillian Sharpe reports from The Hague that the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has begun considering all the evidence from the first trial. Prosecution and defense attornies wrapped up their arguments today in the case of a Bosnian Serb, Dusan Tadic, who is accused of crimes against humanity.

The FBI has arrested one of its own on charges of spying for Moscow. Earl Edwin Pitts, who has been with the FBI for 13 years, is accused of taking more than 200-thousand dollars to spy for the Soviet Union, beginning in 1987. NPR's Chitra Ragavan reports that Pitts was arrested at work at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, today. Pitts faces attempted espionage and conspiracy charges that could put him in prison for life.

Commentator Bill Harley recounts how his best teacher meandered off the subject at hand and left an indelible impression on him. "Birdwalking" is a term of derision used by educators about this practice.

which finds that black patients with serious heart disease are less likely to undergo heart bypass surgery, than white patients with similar symptoms. The study says that fact may explain the higher death rate from heart disease among black patients.