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that has changed the way scientists study the sun. A spacecraft called SOHO was launched last December. In its orbit around the sun... instead of the Earth... SOHO is providing accurate and startling new data.

to defend him against allegations that his past fundraising activities broke House ethics rules. Speaker Gingrich is replacing Jan Baran, Washington's leading attorney on campaign finance law, with J. Randolph Evans of Atlanta, a nationally known specialist on legal malpractice.

continues his rounds on Capitol Hill today in an effort to get Congress to pay more than $1 billion the U.S. owes the world body. He's already got the backing of the Clinton Administration, but Congress wants to see some changes in the U.N. before it pays up.

Patients undergoing this so-called, 'minimally invasive by-pass surgery,' recover much faster than from the current open chest procedure. But it is expected to be useable in only five to twenty percent of cases, where heart by-pass operations are required.

at the Republican National Convention. Leaders of the organization say that one out of every eight convention delegates is either a Christian Coalition member or a conservative Christian activist. The coalition is using computers to keep track of all four thousand delegates and alternates.

Records leaked to The Miami New Times appear to show players have not stopped doping. The paper says its interviews and records show "the war on doping has been as futile as the war on drugs."

1: Pulitzer Prize winning Philadelphia Inquirer reporters DONALD BARLETT and JAMES STEELE. "Barlett and Steele" as they are often referred to in Philly, are writing a new ten part series in the Inquirer titled "Who Stole the Dream?" Barlett and Steele say American public policy is largely to blame for why many American jobs have been sent overseas. Barlett and Steele will publish these stories in book form later this year by Andrews and McMeel.In 1991, They wrote a series entitled "America: What Went Wrong?" that generated the greatest reader response in the history of The Inquirer, generating more than 20 thousand letters. The series chronicled how government and corporate policies hurt the earning power of America's middle class. That series was turned into a 1992 New York Times best-seller "America: What Went Wrong?" from Andrews and McMeel. Other books by them include "Empire:The Life, Legend and Madness of Howard Hughes," and "Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America." Barlett and Steele won Pulitzer Prizes for their reporting in 1975 and 1989.

Explosions were reported in several districts of Moscow and outlying regions of the city Tuesday as Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital Tuesday that killed at least one person.

An American journalist wounded in an Israeli tank strike in Lebanon returns home to press the U.S. government to investigate the incident, which killed a Reuters reporter, as a targeted attack.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Associated Press reporter Megan Janetsky about her recent reporting trip to Haiti.