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This Sunday NBC will broadcast an all-star two-part adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Travels. Ted Danson has the title role and reviewer Ken Tucker says the production features outstanding special effects, is funny, and remains true to its satiric source.

NPR's Michael Skoler reports that as the first southern African nation to go from white minority rule to black majority rule, Zimbabwe could be a model for South Africa in the areas of political and social reform. In the area of land reform, Zimbabwe's policy has been to placate the former rulers: the government has left most of the country's good land in the hands of the small white minority.

Commentator Elissa Ely learns about the professional distance that a therapist is expected to keep from her patients. But during her residency, she meets Steven, a fascinating patient, who speaks like a professor, but eats like an animal and slips into delusions. From her interaction with him she learns to balance professional and human needs.

The Navy is suspending flights by a fighter squadron, following the crash of one of its F-14 jets in a Nashville Tennessee suburb. Five people died in the accident, including the two fliers aboard the plane. NPR's Martha Raddatz looks at what investigators have determined about the cause.

Hapa [HAH-puh] is the name of a band from Hawaii. It's made up of native Hawaiian who's part Chinese and a native New Yorker who's all Irish Catholic. Together they make music that ranges from traditional Hawaiian slack-key guitar to acoustic pop. Heidi Chang reports. There are two Hapa CD's available on the Coconut Grove label.

plans to withdraw its diplomats from Sudan. Sudan is upset with the U.S. decision, denying U.S. allegations that it can't protect U.S. personnel from terrorist threats.

The Beatles made their last public performance 27 years ago today, on the roof of Apple studios.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports a commission headed by former housing secretary Jack Kemp is recommending the current income tax system be replaced with a single rate system -- the so-called flat tax. The panel's recommendations come as the flat tax issue is a major topic of debate in the Republican presidential campaign.

Times are tough for hospitals in rural areas -- people are moving away, and spending for health care, which these hospitals rely on, is being reduced. NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on how a federal program is helping a small hospital in western Kansas survive.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that astronomers have found evidence for the existence of two new planets outside our solar system. Both putative planets are about 35 light years from Earth, and are orbiting stars at a distance that would allow water to exist on them. One appears to be orbiting a sun in the constellation Virgo, while the other appears to be orbiting a sun in the Big Dipper.