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SCOTT AND THE U.S. SENATE'S HISTORIAN LOOK AT THE LAST ELECTION YEAR WHEN LOTS OF INCUMBENT SENATORS DECLINED A CHANCE AT RE-ELECTION -- EXACTLY A CENTURY AGO.

Linda Gradstein reports from Tel Aviv on the trial of Yigal Amir, who has confessed to killing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On the day the prosecution rested its case, it was clear that the defense was in disarray and that Amir might be forced to use an insanity defense.

an engineer with Garfield County, Washington, about a local phenomenon that may take years to solve: a new section of road that smokes and sometimes even bursts into flame.

Robert talks with Linda Wertheimer who is in New Hampshire following the campaign. She assesses the mood of Granite State, as well as the fortunes of the Republican presidential candidates in the run-up to the state's primary next week.

A conversation about legendary pool player Minnesota Fats who died this morning at his home in Nashville. Noah talks with Jim Murray, who's a columnist with the Los Angeles Times.

hostage crisis in the Russian region of Dagestan.

We ask a number of writers - specialists in mystery, science fiction, children's literature and magic -- to apply their craft to the unravelling of the case of a stack of subpoenaed Rose Law Firm documents that mysteriously appeared in a limited access White House residential room after they were long thought to be lost.

Linda talks with NPR's senior political correspondent Elizabeth Arnold, who is traveling in Iowa, about how publisher Steven Forbes is being received in the state. Forbes, who's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has been waged mostly over the airwaves, has spent the past two days touring the state by bus and meeting potential primary voters. While he's been trying to sell his flat tax plan, he's increasingly questioned about his views on a broad range of other issues, like abortion.

that owned the plane that went down near the Dominican Republic yesterday morning.

Political newcomer Steve Forbes has surprised practically everyone by stealing some of Bob Dole's limelight, and by making his call for a "flat tax" a central issue in the campaign. In this profile, NPR's Melissa Block looks at Forbes's background: how he came to inherit the fortune of his father, publisher Malcolm Forbes, and how he's run "Forbes" magazine since his father died. His editorials in the magazine have shown his fixation of some of the same issues he's stressed during the campaign (the flat tax and opposition to government regulation). As a businessman, he's changed few things put in place by his father, but "Forbes" continues to be quite successful.