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Critic Bob Mondello picks the best movies of the year, and surprise! "Twister" isn't one of them. He says that the most interesting films of the year actually were about disasters...just not the natural kind.

Gene Johnson of member station WNYC reports on today's verdict in the Crown Heights federal civil rights trial. A jury in New York convicted two men for violating the civil rights of Yankel Rosenbaum, who was killed during what police call a 'race riot' in 1991.

for a rendezvous with the Hubble telescope. During the mission the astronauts will upgrade equipment on the telescope.

Commentator Fawn Fitzgibbon has been a home hospice nurse for 7 years. In that time she has learned that death comes relentlessly. Cutting a life short by suicide is to surrender, she says. To live each moment, despite the limits that an illness brings, is more than to shake a fist at death; it gives meaning to the life itself, she says.

CIA director John Deutch was at a town meeting in South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles yesterday. He was answering allegations that the agency introduced the crack cocaine trade there in the early 1980s. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on how that meeting went.

Scott speaks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden about refugees caughtin the fighting between Rwanda and Zaire.

editor-in-chief of >Entrepreneur magazine, about hot business trends for 1997. She says, if you've been thinking of starting your own business, or if you're already your own boss, you might consider scenting your store with a citrus fragrance and stocking up on rollerblades and gardening tools.

The city of Hong Kong will cease being a British colony exactly six months from today, and local opinions about the changeover are running high. NPR's Mary Kay Magistad talks with four Hong Kong residents about their apprehensions and expectations as the handover date nears.

Noah talks with Peter Stark, a writer who lives in Missoula, Montana. They discuss Stark's article "The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death," which appears in the January 1997 issue of Outside Magazine. The article is a kind of tribute to the short story "To Build A Fire," by Jack London and it talks about the physical symptoms of hypothermia. It also describes the physiological and mental processes involved when a person freezes to death.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez looks at the controversy surrounding "Ebonics," black English, which has been recognized by the Oakland school board.