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In honor of Veterans' Day, President Clinton speaks at a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Commentator Doug Bradley talks about his private ritual of rereading his letters and journals from Vietnam. They help him bridge the gap between his father's experiences from WWII and his own experiences from a more recent war.

Commentator Kevin Kling tells a story about the time he decided it was time to get a bike. Not a bicycle...a MOTORcycle. He takes his motorcycle out with some more experienced riders...which is to say, a bunch of bikers...and begins to find out what he's made of.

to preview the college basketball season.

Scott talks with Professor David Hosford about the highly valued and highly priced Matsutake (mot-zu-tah-kee) mushroom, which grows in the pine forests of the Pacific Northwest and in Japan.

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and Minority Leader Tom Daschle about the 105th Congress, which convenes next month.

chains of private, for-profit schools, two companies are waiting for a second chance. This time they've got a more modest, low-key plan.

It's been five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union but it will take many more years to undue much of the ecological damage done during Soviet rule. Case in point: one of the greatest environmental disasters in the world today is the drying up of the Aral Sea in central Asia. In the 1950s, when the Soviets decided to increase their cotton crop, two rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea were used to irrigate the cotton fields of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan; the flow of water to the Aral Sea was reduced by ninety percent with disasterous results. NPR's Mike Shuster visits an Uzbek town that used to one of the Aral Sea's biggest ports--now the sea is thirty miles away and the town of Mujnak (Moy-NAHK) is plagued by both massive unemployment and serious health problems brought on by the Aral's demise.

Scott bids a fond farewell to departing Senior Producer Cindy Carpien.

two years of ideological and budgetary attacks from Republicans in Congress, much to the dismay of conservatives.