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Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Dan Vukelich (VOO-kuh-leech), 996 Lincoln Life Lincoln-Douglas Debate champion. Vukelich, a freshman at the merican University in Washington, DC, began debating in high school. He tells acki how he prepares for debates and offers some tips for the presidential andidates.

WITH A SWEEP OF THIS WEEK'S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES, SENATOR BOB DOLE HAS EFFECTIVELY WON THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. NOW BOTH HE AND PRESIDENT CLINTON ARE FACED WITH THE DUAL TASK OF CONTINUING TO GOVERN WHILE CAMPAIGNING. SENIOR NEWS ANALYST DAN SCHORR SPEAKS WITH NORMAN ORNSTEIN, RESIDENT SCHOLAR AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE AND THOMAS MANN, DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENTAL STUDIES AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with Dan Bannister, president and CEO of Dyncorp in Reston, Va., about business opportunities in the Balkans. Bannister was supposed to be on the plane that crashed near the Croatian city of Dubrovnick yesterday. Bannister says the Balkans are very attractive for investers because of the tremendous amount of rebuilding that will take place in the next 5 years.

Robert talks with Dan Gibbons, an officer with the Cocoa Beach, Florida Police Department. This morning, Gibbons responded to a call at eight in the morning about a strange object on a local beach. When he arrived, he realized that the object was in fact a part of the space shuttle Challenger. By the end of the morning, two pieces of the Challenger had been recovered and taken back to NASA.

NPR's Dan Charles reports on efforts to create vast new libraries on-line. While more and more information is being made available through computer networks, it's a surprisingly difficult and slow process to convert large amounts of written material into a form that can be easily accessed via computer.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that the Federal Aviation Administration today announced the awarding of a major contract as part of the agency's efforts to modernize its antiquated air traffic control system. The contract, worth close to $1 billion, will begin to replace outdated air traffic control computers at airports around the country.

Paymer received an Oscar nomination for his role in Mr Saturday Night. He also starred in the movie Quiz Show as Dan Enright, the villain producer who rigs the show "Twenty-One." His other film credits include Get Shorty and the new David Mamet film State & Main.

The Washington Post conducted a precinct-by-precinct study of invalidated Presidential ballots in Florida and found that ballots in predominantly African-American precincts were considerably more likely to be rejected than ballots cast in majority white precincts. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with Washington Post reporter Dan Keating about his discoveries.

For more than 30 years, several dozen developmentally disabled men were consigned to work in a turkey processing plant in a small Iowa town.

This Thanksgiving, the National Day of Listening encourages you to sit down with a loved one and listen. Today we revisit a portion of Jonathan Schorr's conversation with his father, veteran reporter Dan Schorr, who died earlier this year.