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Noah talks to former Senator George McGovern about his new book "Terry". The book is about his daughter's struggle with alcoholism. "Terry" died about a year-and-a-half-ago at the age of 45. McGovern says he regrets the "tough love" approach he and his wife took with their daughter the last few months of her life. And, he says, he didn't realize until it was too late that his daughter really had no control over her disease.

Burma about the recent military crack down on the pro-democracy movement there.

Novelist and biographer PETER ACKROYD. He's written nine novels and and biographies of Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot. His latest biography is of the 18th century poet, painter and engraver William Blake. It's "Blake: A Biography," (Alfred A. Knopf) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

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California Governor Pete Wilson is releasing his proposal for the state's budget for the next fiscal year. Wilson says a healthy economy has yielded a two billion dollar surplus, much of which he wants to devote to education. Wilson's effort may be designed as much to help the state's ailing education system as to improve the political climate in a crucial state for fellow Republican Bob Dole. Wilson also wants to introduce a fifteen percent across-the-board tax cut. NPR's Virginia Bigar [BIG-ur] reports.

Susan talks with Dr. Bill Walsh, president of Health Research Institute in Naperville Chicago about an ongoing study on some 600 strands of Beethoven's hair. A group of scientists are examining the hair in order to learn more about Beethoven such as how he died and what might have caused his hearing loss.

Derrick Ward reports on yesterday's "Stand For Children" ally in Washington. Organized by Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's efense Fund, the event drew some 200,000 people to the mall.

Susan talks to Harry Goode, a cattle farmer in England who is using his cows to sell ad space to a variety of companies. Goode came up with this gimmick after the ban on British beef was implemented due to fears that some of the cattle may have mad cow disease. Eight of Goode's cows have had billboard like ads placed on their backs which passersby can see from the interstate that runs close to Goode's pastures. He charges advertisers 100 pounds per day and even America's Ben and Jerry's ice cream has bought an ad.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports that President Clinton's proposal today of a fifteen-hundred dollar tax credit for students who attend two years of college. There's an argument among politicans and others over whether a tax cut should be targeted to a narrow group of taxpayers, like this one proposed by Clinton, or be aimed at a more general group of people, affecting a much wider population.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has gone to court to force Chrysler to recall 91,000 cars. Federal officials say that rear seat belts in the cars are unsafe, but Chrysler has resisted the recall, saying there's no problem. This is the first time an automaker has resisted federal requests for a voluntary recall.

Noah talks to Matt Wald, aviation correspondent for the New York Times, about developments in the investigation of the causes of the crash of Valujet Flight 592. Investigators are now looking at the possibility that oxygen generators were mislabeled or mishandled and caused the fire on board the aircraft.

The government's worst-kept secret is being released today. The Medicare Plan A trust fund -- which is used to pay hospital and home health bills for more than thirty-seven million elederly and disabled people -- will go broke in 2001 instead of 2002, unless something is done to fix it. NPR's Joanne Silberner looks at the Medicare Trustees report and what it means for the future of the program. Most economic analysts find very little difference in the Republican or Democratic proposals to make it solvent.