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From Moscow, NPR's Andy Bowers reports that Russian President Boris Yeltsin has appeared on television, fifteen days after heart bypass surgery. He said he is in what he called "a fighting mood". He also told Kremlin officials they will be held accountable for their actions while he has been away.

Heart disease is one of the main killers of African-Americans, who have a higher mortality rate than whites. But there are variations in the occurrence of heart disease among African-Americans from different regions of the country and different parts of the world. Those who immigrated to New York from the South had a much higher death rate from heart disease, and blacks from the Caribbean had a much lower rate...a lower rate even than whites. NPR's Joanne Silberner says the report suggests that factors ranging from diet to cultural and social conditions are more important than genes.

Wilson was a pioneer in photomicrography ...that was when he was a farm kid fooling around with a hand-me-down microscope and an old bellows camera in the 1880's. His greatest distinction, though, was coming up with the theory that no two snowflakes are alike. Harriet Baskas visited the Jericho, Vermont, Historical Museum, which devotes half of its collection to "The Snowflake Man" and his photographs.

Susan talks to report Alice Furlaud about the tradition of the President throwing open the White House doors on New Years.

Susan looks at the difference between stage and screen acting according to actor Derek Jacobi.

The AnnualKing Mango Strut parade in Miami was an excuse this year to satirize the city's financial crisis...especially the city's municipal workers and the amount they are paid. Cheryl Devall was there, and has this report on the problems that continue to plague the financially-troubled city.

Edward Lifson is in Belgrade, where police stopped students from marching, but an estimated 60,000 anti-government demonstrators rallied. The coalition of opposition parties, which has sponsored marches for more than five weeks, got a psychological boost today from a report issued by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The OSCE report was released following a week of investigating poll results from the November 17th municipal elections that were annulled by the government and Yugoslav courts. The OSCE today said the opposition parties won those elections fair and square.

For more than three decades Guatemala has been in the midst of a civil war that has cost tens of thousands of lives. Today, that bloody war is coming to an end with an official ceremony in Guatemala City. Daniel talks with NPR's David Welna about the significance of the ceremony and whether or not peace and justice will finally come to Guatemala.

Linda talks with Charles Gasparino, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal . They discuss the strong stock market of the last ten years, and how investors who have never experienced a "bear market" may react when the economic indicators experience a downward turn.

NPR's Ed Lifson reports on the demonstrations in Belgrade.