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the East Coast this morning.

conference championship games this weekend.

Daniel talks with Robert McKinley of the RAM Research Group who says that consumer credit card debt has tripled in the last decade. McKinley says many credit card issuers are now offering seemingly great "teaser rates" that draw more people into getting credit cards, but then people forget those rates double and even triple after a certain amount of time and therefore more and more people are getting loaded down with debt.

Daniel visits the Goleta California Farm of Michael Ableman. Ableman is an organic farmer and faces the possibility of losing the land if he doesn't raise three-quarters of a million dollars in the next two years. Even more interesting is his 12 acre farm called "Fairview Gardens" is completely surrounded by suburban development.

Daniel speaks with Sandy Rikoon, a sociologist at the University of Missouri about Rachel Caloff (KAY-loff), a young woman who in the 1890's left her native Russia for the United States marry a man she'd never met. Together, Caloff and her new husband moved to North Dakota where they became part of a small Jewish farming community. Rikoon found a manuscript of Caloff's memoirs in an historical archive and worked with the family to get it published. It's called 'The Rachel Caloff Story' and is published by Indiana University press.

NPR's John McChesney reports that many computers used by government and industry may stop working in the year 2000. The problem has to do with the fact that many of these computers record dates using only the last two digits of the year..and that if you enter zero zero for 2000...many of these machines will get confused.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports from the United Nations of concern over the immediate future of the International War Crimes Tribunal investigating atrocities in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Just as the investigation is reaching critical mass, it appears the chief prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, is about to leave his post.

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will direct a private national campaign to reduce teen pregnancy and on the critical reaction from Dr. Foster's detractors. Foster failed to win Senate confirmation as Surgeon General after he admitted understating the number of abortions he had performed.

Robert talks with R. Jeffery Smith, National Security Reporter for the Washington Post, about a Defense Department security memo warning contractors that Israel might be using Jewish-Americans to steal military and intelligence secrets.