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2: Psychologist MARY PIPHER has worked mostly with teenage girls for over ten years. She's witnessed the "oppression" of teenage girls today, more pronounced than that of their mothers because of the "more dangerous, sexualized and media saturated culture." She argues also that something happens to girls when they reach adolescence, that they lose their "assertive, energetic and 'tomboyish' personalities" to become "more deferential, self-critical and depressed." PIPHER has found greater incidents of eating disorders, self-mutiliation, underachievement and depression among her clients. PIPHER's new book is "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls." (P

1 & 2: Former President JIMMY CARTER. He's written a new book about his early days in politics, "Turning Point: A Candidate, A State, and a Nation Come of Age," (Time Books). Terry will talk with him about his presidency, the work he's done since he's left the office, and what he thinks about a Clinton presidency. (This interview continues into the second half of the show).

Biologist EDWARD O. WILSON has been called "The Ant Man" by "The New York Times Magazine." He has spent most of his life studying ants and other insects, and has written a number of books on the subject. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed "The Ants," with Bert Holldobler. The pair have just published a sequel to that work, "Journey to the Ants" (The Belkap Press of Harvard University Press), and WILSON has written a memoir, "Naturalist" (Island Press), that chronicles his love of ants.

Soprano EILEEN FARRELL. At the age of 73, she's had a long career: she began in radio, with her own show on CBS, in the forties. In the fifties she started singing opera, and has performed with every major opera company and symphony orchestra in the U.S., including five seasons with the Metroplitan Opera in New York. She has also been a professor of music at Indiana University and the University of Maine. Starting in the sixties, she began putting out albums of jazz standards. Terry spoke to her last year after the release of her album,"It's Over." (Reference Recordings RR-46CD) Farrell's latest album is called "Here" (Elba Records.) (REBROADCAST Originally aired 7

Twenty-five years ago, most of the middle class wasn't involved in Wall Street affairs, and investments were for the rich. Now that's changed, in what financial journalist JOSEPH NOCERA calls "a money revolution." NOCERA has written "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class" (Simon & Schuster) The book explores how the middle class became involved in the stock market, largely, he says, through the rise of credit cards, mutual funds, and discount brokerage houses.

2: Israeli political scientist EHUD SPRINZAK. SPRINZAK has written a book called "The Ascendence of Israel's Radical Right" (Oxford University Press 1991). He follows the emergence in Israel since 1984 of a radical right-wing movement shaped by religious fundamentalism, extreme nationalism and aggresive anti-Arab sentiment. SPRINZAK believes that the influence of the radical right pervades Israeli politics and culture as well as Arab-Israeli relation. He sees Israel's radical right exercising increasing control over the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. SPRINZAK is a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Actor, comedian, filmmaker, and author MICHAEL PALIN. In the fall of 1988, PALIN recreated the journey Jules Verne described in "Around the World in 80 Days." PALIN turned his journey into a very successful 8-part TV BBC series. He is of course also known for his tenure as a member of Monthy Python's Flying Circus and his appearances in "The Missionary" and "A Fish Called Wanda." (REBROADCAST FROM 4

British Beer maven MICHAEL JACKSON (not THAT Michael Jackson). As a leading expert on beer, he's traveled the planet and northern California to sample and rate the wide range of beer-brewing. JACKSON is also a historian of the drink, offering perspectives on the popularity of local microbreweries and the appeal of home-brewing. His books include "Pocket Guide to Beer -The Connoisseur's companion to over 1000 Beers of the World-" (Simon & Schuster) and "Michael Jackson's Beer Companion" (Running

Authority on complementary cancer treatments MICHAEL LERNER. His book is called "Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer" (The MIT Press). LERNER believes that cancer patients are wise to use "whatever combination of conventional and complementary cancer therapies that makes sense to them." So he wrote this book to provide "credible maps and training in reading these maps" to patients "actually trying to traverse the forbidding landscape of cancer diagnosis and treatment." LERNER won a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for his work in public health in 1983. The research institute he founded, called The Commonweal Cancer Help Program, was recently featured on Bill Moyers' PBS series "Healing and the Mind.

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Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Rosanne Cash''s latest album, "The Wheel," (Columbia).

HOWELL RAINES is editorial page editor of "The New York Times." He's written a new "fishing" memoir, one that's part sporting autobiography and part guide-book for the middle years of life. "Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis," (William Morrow & Company). RAINES also won the Pulitzer Prize for "Grady's Gift," a New York Times Magazine article about his friendship with a black woman in segregated Birmingham. (Rebroadcast from 9