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NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the recent flaps over the ouse Historian, the Enola Gay exhibit and history curriculum guidelines for chools show that "political correctness" is affecting the interpretation of istory.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with reporter Jim Ruppert about his recent rip to Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya. Ruppert saw widespread devastation n the Chechen capital...including what appeared to him to be numerous examples f attrocities comitted by Russian soldiers.

2: Physician and author KENNETH ISERSON. ISERSON wanted to promote organ and tissue donation, so he wrote a book about what happens to dead bodies. It's called "Death to Dust" (Galen Press). ISERSON believes that death is the pornography of our culture, because after-death activities are shrouded in secrecy. His book explores the mundane--burial choices and advance directives--and the arcane--head shrinking, cannibalism and cryonic preservation.

Today the East Coast's first big snow storm of the year hit, dumping more than a food of snow in some areas and with snow falling as far south as Gerogia. Airports are clogged and some roads are almost impassable. Melissa Block reports from New York about this winter's unseasonal weather and what is in store for the remainder of the weekend.

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Professor NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE (Neg-row-pont-ay). His new book "Being Digital" (knopf) explores the future of new information technology and how it will challenge today's perceptions of the future. Ten years ago NEGROPONTE created the now famous and innovative Media Laboratory at MIT. He believes a fundamental change in how we live is coming with the newest computer technologies. He is also a popular columnist for Wired Magazine

NPR's Mara Liasson reports on today's meeting between President Bill Clinton and governors and congressmen in which they discussed ways to revamp the nation's welfare system.

LITTLE BEARDS: Essayist Mike Renfro comments on the urrent "Van Dyke beard" fad.

2: Poet JAMES MERRILL. He died Monday at age 68. The son of the founder of the Merrill Lynch brokerage house, Merrill took to Europe at age 24, a newly published poet "meaning to stay as long as possible". That was in 1950. His memoir "A Different Person" (Knopf) detailed his two and a half years there, and featured encounters with psychoanalysts, new and old lovers, and Alice Toklas. MERRILL wrote eleven books of poems, and was the winner of two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize. (REBROADCAST FROM 10

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FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, NPR'S JOHN BURNETT REPORTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE MEXICAN PESO DEVALUATION ON U.S. BUSINESSES. WHILE SALES OF SOME U.S. IMPORTS TO MEXICO HAVE PLUMMETED SOME BUSINESSES ARE REAPING ADVANTAGES IN REDUCED LABOR COSTS AND LOWER IMPORT PRICES FOR GOODS COMING FROM MEXICO.

SIMON/POGGIOLI: PASTA: SCOTT SIMON TALKS WITH NPR'S SYLVIA POGGIOLI IN ROME ABOUT A REPORT PUBLISHED THIS WEEK IN THE NEW YORK TIMES THAT STATES THAT FOOD SCIENTISTS NOW BELIEVE THAT PASTA CARBOHYDRATES CAN BE FATTENING, EVEN WITHOUT THE SAUCE TOPPINGS.