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The two newest teams in the National Football League, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Carolina Panthers, have both advanced to the AFC and NFC Conference Championships. Linda talks with Peter King, who writes for Sports Illustrated, about how both teams have found such success, so early in their franchises' history.

Noah talks with Phil Boyer, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, about how small airports operate. Fourteen people died this week when a United Express turbo-prop and a private plane crashed at a small airport in Quincy, Illinois. Like most of the more than 18,000 airports in the United States, the Quincy airport did not have a control tower. Most such airports have good safety records. Boyer explains how pilots communciate with one another at non-towered airports to avoid accidents. They rely on radio...and their own eyes.

a group of businesses near Las Vegas dedicated to the fruit. There's an Ocean Spray processing plant that puts out 600 bottles of juice a minute, a cranberry museum, and a giant talking cranberry. Susan even manages to mention in detail, a certain family recipe featuring the cranberry.

Legendary jazz musician, SONNY ROLLINS. He's been called the greatest living jazz improviser and the greatest virtuoso that jazz has ever produced. Rollins's latest release is "Silver City" (Milestone), a two disk anthology released by Milestone, his recording company, in celebration of their 25 year affiliation with Rollins. Rollins has played with musicians of modern jazz such as Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Bud Powell. Rollins, together with his wife and manager, Lucille, have included such songs as "Autumn Nocturne," Skylark," "Harlem Boys," "G-Man," and "I'm Old Fashioned." (REBROADCAST from 2

among Hong Kong residents over with the transfer of power from Britain to China.

reports that many of the new AIDS treatments are failing to reach some minority communities. Concern is growing that Latinos and African-Americans find out too late that they are infected with the virus.

Robert talks to Edward Rothstein, cultural critic at large for the New York Times, about the decreasing popularity of classical music over the last twenty years. The heart of the classical music repertoire, Rothstein says, was created and popularized in the 19th century, and reflected great themes and grand mythic adventures of the times. Today, movies and popular music are more effective in describing current issues and conflicts than classical music, which plays a minor and diminishing role in the culture.

DAWN UPSHAW concert.

to names its own legislature in Hong Kong, prior to its takeover in July.

President Clinton today awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Bob Dole. In his speech after the award, Senator Dole said "our challenge is not to question American ideals or to replace them, but to act worthy of them." At the same ceremony today at the White House, Mr. Clinton unveiled the winning design for the World War Two Memorial to be constructed on the National Mall in Washington.

We hear the entire text of Frost's poem, "The Gift Outright", as delivered at the Kennedy inaugural.

stance, and endorsed the controversial decision by the Oakland school board to declare black English a separate language known as Ebonics . The plan is meant to improve comprehension and test scores by giving special attention to students having difficulty with language.