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Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that he's trying very hard not to be cynical about some recent events in the news.

The graduate students who teach half the classes and grade most of the papers at three University of California campuses have been out on strike all week. NPR's Richard Gonzales reports that the strike is aimed at gaining bargaining rights. The University system says these teaching assistants aren't "workers."

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on today's order by Army Secretary Togo West to find out whether top commanders knew about allegations of sexual harassment or sex abuse in the Army, and whether they condoned a culture of sexual misconduct within the ranks. While West says the Army will face up to any problems it finds, some critics wonder whether talk will take the place of action.

Daniel talks with Alfred Montgomery of Belfast, Northern Ireland, about a wedding ring he found three years ago at the crash site of an American bomber which went down in World War II. After years of research, Montgomery traced the ring to the Kentucky widow of the plane's pilot and personally returned it to her.

ock Critic KEN TUCKER reviews one of his favorite albums of the year, "O-de-lay" by "Beck." (full name not used) Tucker describes Beck as a "white musician" who successfully integrates hip-hop into his songs.

from politicians and parents' groups to the T.V. industry's new program ratings system.

Robert talks to Charles Harrington Elster, the author of "There's a Word For It: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life" (Scribner: NY 1996). This book offers words for every occasion.. mostly words you have never heard of, like borborigmus, perendinate or explaterate.

Scott talks about a newly discovered bird, the pink-legged graveteiro (grah-vah-TAYR-oh), with ornithologist Bret Whitney.

, where two men have been arrested for statutory rape. The men, recent refugees from Iraq, married thirteen- and fourteen-year old sisters. While illegal in this country, such marriages are a common practice in rural Iraq.

The gift shop at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., is reportedly the most successful of all the presidential library shops. Holiday shoppers head there to look for unusual presents. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

posed to homes and businesses in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas by the illegal, indoor use of an agricultural pesticide. Nearly a thousand people have been moved out of their homes because methyl parathion was sprayed inside to kill cockroaches.

a particular merging of British humour, camp, and tradition that aren't silent at all.