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2: Health care reporter LAURIE KAYE ABRAHAM. For her new book, "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: the Failure of Health Care in Urban America" (U of Chigago), ABRAHAM spent three years with a poor African American family studying the problem of lack of access to medical care. ABRAHAM reveals how difficult it is for a poor family to make sense of Medicaid and Medicare, and the discrimination that blacks face in trying to find health care.

David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine, says he often finds himself in the "loser's locker room." He discusses how those kinds of moments are important to an effective profile, differences of opinion on Iraq and his latest book, Reporting.

A U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri implicates Syria in his death and raises more dark questions about Syrian involvement in Lebanon.

A draft law being reviewed by China's legislature would impose fines on the Chinese media if they report on "sudden events" without official approval from local governments. Wall Street Journal reporter Geoffrey Fowler says those "sudden events" could include things such as mining disasters, health scares and riots.

A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.

Richard Holbrooke's return trip to the Balkans this weekend. Holbrooke is trying to soothe tensions among Serbs, Croats and Bosnians, which are threatening further implementation of the Dayton peace accord.

a bill last night which would change the way health insurance is sold. But the measure will probably face a much tougher fight when it goes before the Senate.

and ways in which some in Congress intend to address the problem. But while advocates of reform try to build support, some of the nations most powerful interest groups threaten the movement.

of a bill to overhaul the nation's telecommunications law. The overwhelming votes in the House and Senate came after months of lobbying and after Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole gave up his opposition.

on the West Bank and Gaza. Yesterday was the official start of the campaign for the 88-member council that will govern the newly-autonomous regions. The elections are January 20, 1996.