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ALEX REFLECTS ON THE DEATH, THIS WEEK, OF THE INVENTOR OF NYLON AND ONE OF THE CREATORS OF SUPERMAN. AND IT WAS A DEATH OF ANOTHER SORT, TOO, FOR COSMOPOLITAN EDITOR HELEN GURLEY BROWN, WHO'S STEPPING DOWN.

CHADWICK/ LONE RANGER: WHO SHOULD BE OUR ROLE MODEL FOR A NEW MILLENIUM? THE AUTHOR OF A NEW BOOK THINKS HE'S FOUND HIM...THE MASKED MAN. 2:45. (Jim Lichtman's new book....from Scribbler's Ink press....is "The Lone Ranger's Code of the West: An Action-Packed Adventure in Values and Ethics with the Legendary Champion of Justice" 1-800-833-9327 to order pre-public

NPR''s Jim Zarolli reports how the Baby Bells might benefit from the Telecommunications bill that was passed this week by Congress.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports the land transfers agreed to between warring factions in the former Yugoslavia began today. Bowers says for the most part...everything is going smoothly. He visits with some Bosnian Serb police who are staying in place for a while longer.

Commentator Joe Loconte (le-CON-tee) talks about a program that is peacefully dealing with the explosiuve issue of prayer in schools. It's a seminar that brings together school adminstrators, teachers and parents in a discussion about teaching religion without PREACHING about religion. He says evangelicals and other religious conservatives have an important role to play in supporting this kind of dialogue.

U.S.-Iran relations are expected to get even tougher when a new Iranian president takes office Thursday. He's a former prosecutor expected to take a hard line inside and outside the country.

hard adapting to a sedentary way of life. For centuries, Tuareg families have wandered the Sahara Desert with their camels and goats. Now they are trying to settle into farming, and they miss their traditional lifestyle.

Democrat Ron Wyden wins the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Bob Packwood -- before interest groups were taking credit. Environmentalists, pro-choicers, unions, and the Democratic Party all say they made the difference in the reed-slim victory margin. NPR's Wendy Kaufman finds local pols saying negative campaigning, the weather, and the first-ever mail-in balloting had more to do with the result.

Linda Gradstein reports from Tel Aviv on the trial of Yigal Amir, who has confessed to killing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On the day the prosecution rested its case, it was clear that the defense was in disarray and that Amir might be forced to use an insanity defense.

Robert talks to Senator Frank Murkowski of Alaska, about his effort to change the Amtrack decision of dropping the names of some of its trains, like the Night Owl, and replacing the names with numbers.

As part of our campaign coverage, we've been hearing from candidates as they travel around the country seeking support. Senator Robert Dole, in a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership conference last month in Mobile, Alabama, says he wants to eliminate the departments of education, commmerce, energy and housing as a way to downsize the federal government. He says the United States has lost prestige as the leader of the free world because we haven't had a foreign policy. Dole says as president, American soldiers would not serve under United Nations command.