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Commentator Lenore Skenazy has a secret for greater happiness: banish full-length mirrors. This comes after an unpleasant realization that an old, ugly person seen across the department store turned out to be her, in a full length mirror.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from San Alavador on the devastating weekend earthquake that left hundreds dead and thousands missing or homeless. The greatest disaster area was the low-income suburb of Santa Tecla, part of which was buried under a landslide triggered by the violent quake.

In April of 1970, blues pianist Otis Spann flew to Boston to play a gig. With him were his wife, Lucille, and his band. The concert would be Otis' last. Before he flew to Boston, doctors had diagnosed Spann with terminal liver cancer -- he died three weeks after the concert. Peter Malick was one of Spann's guitarists. He recently found the recordings of the concert. Noah talks with him about the last days of the blues guitarist, and the meaning of that last gig. (6:15)Find out more at: http://www.otisspann.com.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports from Jerusalem on Israel's latest crackdown on the Gaza Strip, following the killing of a Jewish settler, whose body was found yesterday. Gaza has been sealed off, preventing Palestinians who work in Israel from reaching their jobs. The supply of materials going from Israel into Gaza also has been stopped, and that means loss of work for other Palestinians.

Scott Jagow of member station WFAE reports on the murder trial of former NFL player Rae Carruth. Carruth is accused of hiring someone to kill his pregnant girlfriend and faces the death penalty if found guilty.

NPR's Guy Raz reports from the village of Konculj that the three-mile wide buffer zone along the border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia is far from secure. Under the agreement that ended the Kosovo war, the border strip is off limits to both the Yugoslav Army and the NATO-led peacekeeping force. But ethnic Albanian guerrillas are taking advantage of that void. The rebels are stockpiling weapons in the buffer zone, using it as a staging ground for attacks on Serbian targets within the Presevo Valley Valley of Serbia proper. The militants are fighting to end Serbian rule in majority ethnic Albanian towns in the valley, and to annex the territory to Kosovo. Some residents of villages in the border zone say rebel patrols make them feel more secure from attacks by Serbian forces.

Sometimes referred to as the "Pulitzer Prizes of children's books," the Newbery and Caldecott medals are the oldest, most prestigious awards in children's literature. Today, the medals were presented by the American Library Association to the best author and illustrator of children's books. NPR's Shirley Jahad reports.

Commentator Elissa Ely recalls embellishing facts as a child to create stories about her family and life.

Alan Furst specializes in atmospheric spy thrillers set during the Nazi occupation of Europe. Paris in the spring of 1938 is the dateline of his latest book. Alan Cheuse has a review of Kingdom of Shadows. (2:00) Kingdom of Shadows, by Alan Furst is published by Random House.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the incoming Bush Administration will take a new, less cordial approach to American dealings with Russia.

In part two of a week-long series on President Clinton's foreign policy record, NPR's Tom Gjelten examines US/European relations over the last eight years. There were numerous policy disagreements: the Balkans; the future of NATO; and trade. The emergence of the European Union has raised particular US concerns about the future of the NATO military alliance.

Host Bob Edwards speaks with Ed Bliss, a writer and editor who founded the broadcast journalism program at American University. His new memoir, Beyond the Stone Arches looks back on the forty years his father spent as a medical missionary in China.