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A year ago, AIDS patient Jeff Getty received a bone marrow transplant from a baboon, making him the first person to undergo the trans-species operation. Rachel Gottbaum of member station KQED reports that Getty is healthier today, but researchers don't exactly know why since the baboon cells failed to establish themselves in Getty's body.

Police in St. Petersburg, Florida are acknowledging that at least two of the fires in last week's riot were caused by police. Officers on the scene used a older type of tear gas that can ignite when the canister is discharging. From member station WUSF in Tampa, Sally Watt reports.

When the new Republican-led Congress convenes in January, President Clinton will possess a power that presidents have yearned for since the days of Ulysses Grant -- the line item veto. But NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that lawmakers from the president's own party are hoping to strip Clinton of this powerful fiscal tool before Congress convenes.

For the second straight day, a river of Rwandan refugees is flowing out of eastern Zaire and returning to their homeland after two miserable years of exile in camps along the border. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the refugees, mostly ethnic Hutus, no longer seem afraid to live under the rival Tutsi-led government, and government authorities are welcoming their countrymen back home.

Edmund Roy reports from New Delhi that investigators have released transcripts of the last conversations between the airport control tower at Indira Gandhi International Airport and pilots of the aircraft that collided yesterday. The transcripts have shifted investigators away from air traffic controllers to looking for possible equipment malfunctions.

Hans Japp Melisson of Radio Netherlands reports on tomorrow's planned ice skating marathon. 16,000 skaters are to follow a course 125-miles long through eleven Dutch towns. A million spectators are expected to line the canals and inland waterways. Another 10 million Dutch are expected to watch the event on TV.

Gillian Sharpe reports on the first sentence to be handed down by the United Nations' Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. A young Croat was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he had participated in one of the worst massacres in the former Yugoslavia... the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated safe area.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports that more and more inventors are taking legal action when they feel their ideas are being stolen. And, more courts are ruling in their favor. Last week, the Michigan-based Haworth furniture company won a $211 million award after the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that its copyright for pre-wired office cubicles was stolen by a competitor.

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports on the European Union summit to be held in Dublin, Ireland, beginning tomorrow. At the top of the agenda is a single currency for Europe. When Europeans agreed to a single, common market four years ago, they also agreed to a single currency. But the simple idea of one currency for all of Europe has set off a complex set of reactions.

The 1996 hurricane season - the eighth most active on ecord - officially ended Saturday. But residents in coastal parts of North arolina are still rebuilding in the aftermath of Bertha and Fran, two urricanes which hit the same section of North Carolina coastline. Aileen eye-LEEN) LeBlanc of member station WHQR in Wilmington reports on rebuilding fforts that include planting trees.