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Laura Womack of member station W-A-M-U in Washington reports the Pentagon is in the midst of a two billion dollar renovation project to update outmoded electrical, water, and sewage systems. The main problem for the workers is working in areas with a lot of top secret material and not compromising national security.

The BBC's Angus Roxburgh [ROCKS-burr-ah] reports from outside a village in southern Russia where some of the hostages held by Chechen gunmen have been released. Negotiations continue...the Chechen rebels want to swap the hostages for their own freedom. The Russians have turned them down.

Commentator Daniel Schorr observes that Hilary Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater and White House Travel Office controversies will likely obscure the merits of her new book on children and the family in American society.

on the escalation of tension in recent days between Croats and Muslims after a series of shootings.

SCOTT TALKS WITH MOREESE BICKHAM, ONE OF THE NATION'S LONGEST-SERVING PRISONERS, WHO WAS RELEASED FROM LOUISIANA'S ANGOLA STATE PRISON THIS WEEK AFTER 37-1/2 YEARS.

Danny speaks with NPR's Elizabeth Arnold, who's in Iowa attending a debate among all the Republican presidential candidates.

NPR's Joe Neel reports that two major studies released today are raising new questions about the value of beta carotene in preventing cancer. The government-sponsored studies failed to find any evidence that beta carotene reduces the risk for cancer. In fact, one of the studies suggests that beta carotene may increase the risk for cancer.

We pay homage to Frank Dorsa, inventor of the frozen waffle, who died earlier this week.

Cowboys are synomymous with rugged individualism. But those who ride for money at the rodeo are finding the cowboy way doesn't necessarily pay. The riders say the professional rodeo association that runs the rodeos isn't looking out for their interests. NPR's Mark Roberts reports on the riders' plans to form their own union.

The only major organ of government that has kept operating through two Washington snow storms is the Supreme Court. We talk to NPR's Nina Totenberg about how the Court did it and why.