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about why some people seem to be able to eat as much food as they want, without gaining weight. Americans typically put on about five to seven pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

NPR's Rick Karr tells us how Chicago's Michigan Avenue is lit up every year for the holidays...a feat he can't seem to duplicate at his house.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the United States and other nations are rethinking the scope and mandate of a proposed multinational military force for Zaire. The sudden return of about half-a-million Rwandan refugees over the weekend dramatically altered the humanitarian situation along the Rwanda/Zaire border. Rwanda says there is no longer a need for a force, but the US and others point out that there are still an estimated half-million refugees stranded elsewhere in Zaire, cut off from food and water by fighting between Zairean rebels and exiled Rwandan militias.

Noah talks with Congressman Bill Richardson (D-3rd District of New Mexico) about how his promise of rice, a few jeeps and radios, and a health survey of rebel children, won the release of three Red Cross workers who had been held captive in Sudan for more than five weeks. The four jeeps, nine radios and five tons of rice came from the Red Cross stocks.

Biological and chemical warfare. LEONARD COLE has written "The Eleventh Plague, the Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare."(W.H. Freeman and Company) In it, COLE tells about the extraordinary danger posed by biological and chemical weapons. He reveals, among other things, how the United States Army conducted tests for many years using both biological and chemical agents on Americans. In addition, COLE explores the current debate over what has been called "The Gulf War Syndrome." Some 80 thousand veterans have requested special Government medical examinations to determine if they are suffering from health problems related to their service in the war. COLE is a professor of Science and Public Policy at Rutgers University at Newark.

of the >Guinness Book of Records about the publication's 40th anniversary.

Noah Adams speaks with Madeleine Peyroux (pe-ROO), a twenty-two-year-old singer, who's just released her first CD, "Dreamland." Her career began on the streets of Paris when she was just 15 years old. She specializes in material from the 1920's, '30's and '40's including songs originally made famous by Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday. While her style pays homage to the originators, Madeleine Peyroux adds her own unique imprint to the material.

in Singapore with plans to introduce free trade in computers and telecommunications products.

Linda and Noah give suggestions for disposing of plutonium from over the years.

The federal government is looking at a new generation of safety technologies for the airline industry. The effort follows a year in which scores of people died in two highly publicized crashes of TWA and Valuejet planes. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports the new safety measures could save lives, but the cost will be high and industry executives are worried about having to bear the burden.

The National Transportation Safety Board meets this week in Florida to review all data collected about last May's ValuJet crash. Transcripts from cockpit voice recordings reveal that the pilots knew just how much trouble their craft was in. Investigators will also review results of the data analysis to try and repeat the condition that led to the fire that brought down the plane. NPR's Dan Charles reports.

Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski makes an appearance... via satellite broadcast... in a New Jersey courtroom to answer charges that he killed a New Jersey advertising executive. Madeleine Brand of member station WBGO in Newark reports.