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A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including Pres. Clinton during his State of the Union address; Senate ajority Leader Bob Dole's (R-Kan.) response to the address; Hillary Rodham linton on her testimony before a Grand Jury; Former Pres. Ronald Reagan nnouncing the Challenger explosion; an American remembering the explosion; an nti-death penalty activist and a Democratic lawmaker from Utah on the execution n Utah; and a Pittsburg Steelers fan and a Dallas Cowboy fan on today's Super owl.

2 REMEMBERING THE CHALLENGER EXPLOSION: Even a decade after the space shuttle hallenger exploded, questions about manned space flight and the appropriate ole for NASA continue to be asked. NPR's Joe Palca reports on how the explosion hanged our views of science and technology and continues to affect the space rogram today.

NPR's Mike Shuster in Sarajevo reports on problems facing Sarajevo as it nears another important mile-post under the Bosnian peace plan. The Serb suburbs of the city are to be handed over to the Bosnian government this coming weekend under the supervision of an international civilian police force. However, the deployement of those police is slow and crime is on the rise.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Alex Crosby, a medical epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and author of a new report on suicide and the elderly. After many years of declining rates of suicide among persons 65 and older, the rates have started to increase.

IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, SHE DISCUSSES HER NEW BOOK ABOUT CHILDREN AND AMERICA'S OBLIGATIONS TO ITS YOUNG, AS WELL AS THE VARIOUS CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING WHITEWATER, THE MADISON SAVINGS AND LOAN, AND THE WHITE HOUSE TRAVEL OFFICE THAT HAVE SWIRLED AROUND HER. 14:15. "It Takes a Village," by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Simon & Shuster

In our ongoing series of stump speeches delivered by the Presidential candidates, we hear an excerpt from an address by Alan Keyes.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that U.S. relations with China appear to be heating up again, just in time for the U.S. presidential election.

In the third part of our series on the income gap, reporter Elaine Korry examines whether America is still the land of opportunity or whether that cornerstone of our national identity has been eroded by years of stagnant wages and a growing disparity in incomes.

Rene Preval who formally begins his duties today. Preval takes over from his predecessor, Jean Bertrand Aristide. The peaceful transfer of power was a first for the caribbean nation. But many Haitians wished Arisitide would remain in office.

Commentator Marion Winik in her late 30's and PMS has set in. It makes her a total nut. One day she behaved so badly she called a parent counselor, the school counselor, her ob-gyn and almost called social services to come and take her away for being a bad parent.

Film critic Bob Mondello reviews "A Midwinter's Tale", Kenneth Branagh's behind-the-scenes farce about an English production of Hamlet.

Liane Hansen speaks with Owen Ullman from Business Week and avid Corn from the Nation magazine about the week's news, including the defense uthorization bill, the ramifications of the new telecommunications bill, and at Buchanan's win over Phil Gramm in the GOP caucus in Louisiana.