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Bioethicist GEORGE ANNAS and Director of the Law, Medicine & Ethics Program, Boston University Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Law. "Standard of Practice," (Oxford University Press) is his new book which examines how the law has shaped medical practice. ANNAS believes the law has a bigger impact on medical ethics than does philosophy or medicine. For instance, he says because doctors are afraid of litigation, they often don't use sound medical judgement.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI talks about former "Tomorrow" host Tom Snyder''s move from CNBC to a late show on CBS.

2: Columnist and commentator MURRAY KEMPTON. The New Yorker says he's "surely among the greatest of all living newspapermen" . . . "the one true original in the business." For years he wrote a column for the old New York Post. Now he writes for New York Newsday and The New York Review of Books. At 76, he bicycles around Manhatten in his elegant attire to gather material for his columns on the City's "rebels, losers and rascals." His latest book is a collection of his newspaper pieces. It's called "Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events" (Times Books/Random House).

World Music Critic MILO MILES talks about Soukous music...it''s a popular style of guitar music from Zaire. He reviews four recently released Soukous albums.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER has a review of Bob Dylan''s "Greatest Hits Volume Three" (Columbia). Dylan will also be on MTV''s "Unplugged" on December 14 and 18.

Television critic David Bianculli has a review of ABC''s mini-series, "Stephen King''s The Stand," which begins Sunday.

ommentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Buccaneers," (Viking) the final novel by Edith Wharton. It was published as an unfinished novel after Wharton''s death in 1937. Now it''s been completed -- by scholar and novelist Marion Mainwaring -- and published again.

2: Drummer and lead vocalist for the rock group THE BAND, LEVON HELM (pronounced LEE-von). HELM's Arkansas roots gave the Canadian group an American folk sound. In the 1960's THE BAND got it's start backing Bob Dylan. They went on their own in 1968 with "Music From Big Pink." THE BAND's most recent album is called "Jericho." HELM's written a book about THE BAND called "This Wheel's On Fire" (Morrow). THE BAND is playing Woodstock this weekend, and will then continue to tour.Int 3: Rock musicians DAVID CROSBY and GRAHAM NASH. They're two thirds of the rock group Crosby, Stills, and Nash. The trio is celebrating their 21st year together with a 70 city concert tour and a new album, called "Live It Up." (It's on Atlantic records).

2: Writer, performer and activist NICOLE PANTER. She is well known in the punk-rock scene, and was a founding member and writer of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse." She is a member of the punk band Honk if Yer Horny. In 1992, PANTER co-founded The Bohemian Women's Political Alliance, a feminist organization of "...the teenagers who dressed in black, the bad girls who climbed out of bedroom windows at dark and caught taxis home at dawn."

2: Harvard Law professor ELIZABETH BARTHOLET, (pronounced "BARTH-o-let") author of "Family Bonds: Adoption & the Politics of Parenting" (Hougton Mifflin). In her book, Bartholet --the mother of two adopted Peruvian boys-- examines transracial, single and older-parent families, and challenges current societal priorities about parenting, adoption and infertility.

DR. PAUL MAYEWSKI, chief scientist with the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2. The project archives tubes of ice extracted from Greenland which chronicle 250,000 years of the earth's atmosphere, and changes in the climate. From the ice, scientists can pinpoint the start of the industrial revolution, or the end of the ice age. Scientists hope, by looking at the ice, they can better understand rapid changes in the earth's climate