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NPR's Cheryl Corley reports that the Chicago City Council recently passed an ordinance which will deny business licenses to parents behind in their child support payments. Chicago is the first city to pass this kind of an ordinance. Nineteen states with similar legislation report improved collection rates. Opponents say that by taking away licenses and business opportunities it's harder for people to pay child support in the future.

We hear from Republican candidates Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan as they campaign in New Hampshire, fresh from their wins in Iowa caucuses.

Robert talks with Prof. Arthur Miller, a political scientist at the Univeristy of Iowa. Miller conducted a survey of those who stayed home during yesterday's caucuses and found that, had they voted, the majority would have voted for Bob Dole.

Robert talks with Ed Renwick, director of the Institute of Politics at Loyola University in New Orleans. Renwick analyzes the Louisiana GOP primary and the defining issues that helped Pat Buchannan win out over conservative rival, Sen. Phil Gramm.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that UN and Iraqi negotiators are moving closer to allowing Iraq to sell $4 billion in annual oil exports, so that the country can buy limited amounts of food. The two sides have outlined the remaining obstacles, and now it's up to Saddam Hussein to decide how to proceed.

Texan Tamyra Mensah-Stock became just the second woman to win gold in wrestling for the United States at the Tokyo Olympics. She's the first Black American woman to ever win gold in the sport.

Adam Hochberg reports on the candidacy of former stock car racer Richard Petty. Petty is running on the Republican ticket for Secretary of State for North Carolina. Republicans are hopeful that a Petty victory could mean that North Carolina will become a more Republican state. Democrats would like to see the position of State Secretary abolished before election time.

about why the Superbowl happened as it did.

This is the time of year when the number of illegal border crossings increase dramatically. While beefed up patrols appear to have reduced crossings in some areas, many Mexican are simply finding other points of entry. NPR's David Welna reports on how thousands have pulled down fences and rushed the border near Douglas, Arizona.

Robert talks with Mary Lefkowitz, the Andrew Mellon professor of Humanities at Wellesley College, about her book "Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History." She contests the theory that many of the outstanding features of ancient Greece originated in ancient Egypt. Lefkowitz says the theory stems from an 18th century french novel.