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Television critic David Bianculli reviews tonight''s debut of Warner Bros'' "WB Network."

2: Biologist EDWARD GOLUB, whose book "The Limits of Medicine" (Random House) explores the history of medical advances and argues that medicine's new goal should be to extend health, not life span. There will be no "magic bullet" for today's major illnesses (cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's) like there was for earlier scourges like polio, smallpox and diphtheria, he says. EDWARD GOLUB was a professor of biology at Purdue University for twenty years and a director of research in the pharmaceutical industry for five years. He is president of the Pacific Center for Ethics and Applied Biology, a nonprofit group exploring the relationship between basic and applied biology.

2: Film and T-V director EDWARD ZWICK. He directed the film's "About Last Night. . ." "Glory" and "Leaving Normal." He collaborated with producer Marshall Herskovitz on the creation of the Emmy Award-winning series, "thirtysomething" and the new highly-acclaimed, but underwatched T-V drama series, "My So-Called Life. The two have also collaborated on the new film, "The Legends of the Fall," starring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn. ZWICK directed the film.

Commentator Susan Arnaut Smith describes a real-life yber-nightmare.

Daniel talks to Olivia Gans of the National Right to Life Committee and Henry Felisone of the Evangelical Mission Church about recent violence at clinics where abortions are performed. Gans says that her organization condemns violence in the name of the antiabortion movement and that the violence does nothing to stop abortions. Felisone says that killing doctors who perform abortions is justifiable homicide and that it is philosophically inconsisent to say that abortion is murder but to condemn the killing of people who perform abortions.

Liane Hansen continues her conversation with Father John eier (MY-er), author of "A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus" Doubleday). Meier's second volume, subtitled "Mentor, Message and Miracles," as just been published. He speaks to Liane about the difficulties in analyzing he sparse historical data about the life of Jesus, the role of John the Baptist n Jesus' life, what Jesus meant by the "Kingdom of God," and how an historian ust approach the miracles recorded in the gospels.

SIMON/LAGAZIO: SCOTT TALKS WITH ITALIAN BARON CARLO LAGAZIO. HE'S A LITTLE SHORT OF FUNDS, SO HE'S PUTTING HIS TITLE ON THE MARKET. ASKING PRICE: $61,000.

From the performance studios at National Public Radio, Liane ansen talks with Chic (chick) Street Man. His given name is Charles Edward treetman, and he performs folk and blues-based songs for the young and old. The ongs are from two of his recent albums: "Guns Away" (Mo' Street Music/Five orners Music) and "Everybody Be YoSelf," (Backyard Audio).

Mark Roberts reports on a new survey issued by the National Transportation Safety Board which says that fatigue contributes to as many as 40 percent of truck accidents on the nation's interstate highways.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on changes at the Department of Housing nd Urban Development. Secretary Henry Cisneros has initiated sweeping changes n the agncy, which include consolidation of disparate programs and the use of lock grants.

An extra shot of political turbulence hit Washington D.C. his past week when the Republican Party's balanced budget amendment was efeated in the Senate. Host Liane Hansen speaks with political commentators red Barnes and Tony Snow about this and other current topics recently in the ews.

Film critic Bob Mondello takes a look at how American cinema has typically portrayed gays and lesbians as maniacs or perverts. But Mondello reports that gradually those negative stereotypes are changing and in the next year, there will be several films with prominent gay characters in less stereotypical roles.