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Dan Keating of the Washington Post talks to Linda about his article, which reports that problems with tires on Ford Explorer may go beyond tires made by Firestone. Keating says Explorers have a high rate of tire related accidents with Goodyear tires as well.

Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark about Clinton Administration moves that could lead to a new Middle East summit aimed at halting the increasingly bloody confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians.

NASA unveils results from an unmanned space probe that reveal the universe's age, composition and fate. Scientists say the results mark a turning point in cosmology. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

To set the mood for Valentine's Day, Commentator Frank Deford remarks on sports fans' love for their home team, athletes' love for their sport writers, and his own bittersweet farewell to a helpful acquaintance.

Commentator Mary Sojourner once told us how she was giving up e-mail for the quiet pleasures of life lived only in real time and real space. Now she says the realities of making a living are driving her back online.

NPR's Bob Edwards talks with Mark Winegardner, the author and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Winegardner has been pegged by Random House to continue Mario Puzo's Godfather saga.

The U.S. has pledged to deliver 1.1 billion doses of COVID vaccines to countries in need. Billions more are needed. NPR interviewed the State Department's global vaccine coordinator to learn more.

Noah talks to an out of work Serbian lawyer Biljana Obradovic. She lives in the town of Kraljevo. She says she and her husband have been anti-Milosevic for the past ten years. She has never found work and hopes the change in government will allow her to do so.

Commentator Desree Cooper was shopping with her mother when they ran into a woman who was from the same town. That's not the only coincidence...Desree's family used to work for this woman's family. Desree expected an awkward moment in the chance meeting.

A Brazilian woman is fined for not wearing a motorcycle crash helmet, but she has an excellent alibi.