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  • - Daniel visits squid expert Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Roper - a biologist - is organizing an expedition to the South Pacific, where he hopes to find a kind of massive squid that reportedly has been sighted by soldiers and fishermen. Roper will search for the squid in a glass bubble that will descend hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
  • Robert talks to Dr. Richard Perryman, the chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at the University of Miami. He performed a heart transplant at Jackson's Children's Hospital on a 90 minute old baby - Cheyenne Pyle is the youngest heart transplant in history.
  • The two newest teams in the National Football League, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Carolina Panthers, have both advanced to the AFC and NFC Conference Championships. Linda talks with Peter King, who writes for Sports Illustrated, about how both teams have found such success, so early in their franchises' history.
  • is bringing to an end to a big part of Michigan's industrial history. The plant, built in 1941, recently shut down after half-a-century of armaments building.
  • To celebrate its 90th anniversary, Chicago-based Poetry magazine has released a collection of correspondence between the publication and renowned poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams. The book is called Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters.
  • Scott talks to Andrew Ladis, professor of art history at the University of Georgia, about the great 14th century Italian artist Giotto's. A skeleton believed to be his was found in the Florence Chapel several years ago, and Florentine officials plan to hold an elaborate burial ceremony this Monday.
  • Robert talks with NPR's Larry Abramson about the Federal Communications Commission's decision to grant conditional approval to America Online's acquisition of Time Warner. The 106-billion-dollar merger will create the largest media company in U.S. history.
  • President Bill Clinton has presided over one of the strongest economies in US history. But experts disagree on whether Clinton should receive credit for the boom. As part of NPR's series looking at the Clinton legacy, John Ydstie reports on the Clinton administration's period of prosperity.
  • Scott talks with history professor and FDR biographer Patrick Maney about the enormous number of songs that were written for Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt during their time in the White House. (12:00) For more on this story, visit our FDR music feature page.
  • The German Government released figures that shows attacks last year by Neo-Nazis against foreigners have risen by 40 percent over the same period in 1999. From Berlin, NPR's Guy Raz reports on how a group of social psychologists view how history of being passed from one generation to the next.
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