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Business Journalist MARK PENDERGRAST. His new book is "For God, Country, and Coca-Cola: The Unauthorized History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company that Makes It." (Charles Scribners). In the book PENDERGRAST shows how Coca-Cola, a drink that's 99% sugar water, became the world's most widely distributed product, and a symbol for the Western way of Life.

Biomedical ethicist ARTHUR CAPLAN. Among the topics Marty discusses with him are the right to die and the implications of the doctor-assisted suicides, specifically how Dr. Jack Kevorkianhas been helping patients die. Caplan is Director of Biomedical Ethics and a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Surgery at the University of Minnesota

Professor JOHN DOMINIC CROSSAN (CROSS-in). A native of Ireland, ordained as a priest in the U.S. (he left the Priesthood in 1969), CROSSAN now teaches biblical studies at DePaul University. CROSSAN is a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, a group of scholars who meet to determine the authenticity of Jesus' sayings in the Gospels. CROSSAN's new work is "Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography" (HarperCollins) which seeks to place Jesus in the context of his Jewish, Mediterranean and peasant roots; to see him as a Socratic philosopher and radical egalitarian. (This is a replay of an interview originally broadcast on March 30, 1994.

Character actor NED BEATTY. He spent 15 years in theater before making his film debut in "Deliverance." Since then, he''s played everything from a sinister executive in "Network" to a clownish sheriff in the Burt Reynolds film "Stroker Ace." In all, Beatty has acted in 37 feature films, and 44 television movies or series. (rebroadcast from 10/26/87). BEATTY is now a regular on Barry Levinson''s TV series "Homicide."

2: INTERVIEW WITH MIKAL GILMORE CONTINUES.

final segment of Mikal Gilmore interview.

2: Sportswriter MARK BOWDEN. He covered the Philadelphia Eagles for "The Philadelphia Inquirer" for three seasons, and now has a book about the team, "Bringing the Heat: A Pro Football Team's Quest for Glory, Fame, Immortality, and a Bigger Piece of the Action" (Knopf). The book follows the team through the 1992 season, after their coach was fired and after the death of their star defensive lineman, Jerome Brown.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews Tom Petty''s new album.

2: MARTHA REEVES is the lead singer of Martha and the Vandellas, the Motown group which made it big in the 60's with such hits as "Nowhere to Run," "Heat Wave," and "Dancing in the Street." Her new autobiography "Dancing in the Street: Confessions of a Motown Diva," (Hyperion) is about her career at the height of Motown music's popularity, and about her conflicts with other Motown singers and managers.

2: Irish actor/producer GABRIEL BYRNE. He got his big break playing a slick gangster in the Coen Brothers' "Miller's Crossing." One reviewer wrote, "a subtle yet forceful performance as an impassive man, concealing deep pain." BYRNE was the executive producer of "In the Name of the Father." He also starred in and produced the films "A Dangerous Woman," and "Into the West." BYRNE is now appearing as Prof. Bhaer in the remake of "Little Women," directed by Gillian Armstrong.

Demand for grocery delivery apps like Instacart continues to grow.

In July 1957, Buddy Holly left Texas with only one record climbing the charts. Five months later, sporting capped teeth, a sharp suit, and horn-rimmed glasses, Holly debuted live on The Ed Sullivan Show. Like Elvis Presley only a year before, Holly had made it to prime time TV.