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Several environmental groups are protesting President-elect George Bush's nomination for Interior Secretary Gale Norton. NPR's Peter Overby reports on efforts to derail the nomination.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that a judge has ruled that school children in New York City aren't receiving a large enough portion of the state's education dollars. He says inadequate funding is costing the students a sufficient education.

Jason Beaubien reports on President Clinton's return to New Hampshire, the state he credits with giving him the momentum to say in the 1992 Presidential race. Clinton used today's speech in Dover to talk about the social and economic improvements of the last eight years.

Following the shooting on the set of Rust, NPR's Sarah McCammon talks with Maryann Gray, founder of Accidental Impacts, a support group for people who have caused accidental deaths or injury.

Dave Hirschman, reporter for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and author of Hijacked: the Heroes of Flight 705, joins Robert by phone to talk about the new arrangement between Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service. (4:30) Hijacked: the Heroes of Flight 705, is published by William Morrow, 1998.

Scientists often use genetically modified mice to study human diseases. It's a very big leap to take the research from Mice to Humans. Now scientists have created a genetically modified rhesus monkey.

Poet and commentator Andrei Codrescu offers a meditation about the human body.

Californians braced for rolling blackouts today as a major coastal storm delivered another blow to a state reeling from tight supplies of electricity. Energy officials declared their highest level power emergency, meaning that entire neighborhoods could lose power for an hour at a time to ease the strain on the system. Officials said as many as two million residents could be affected. The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant north of Los Angeles cut back to 20 percent of normal output because of the storm. Scott Horsley reports.

NPR's Pam Fessler reports on President-elect Bush's selection of a new Labor Secretary-designate and a US Trade Representative-designate. Elaine Chao is being tapped to follow Linda Chavez, who withdrew her name for the Labor Department. Robert Zoellick is in line for U.S. Trade Representative. At a news conference today, Bush also defended two other nominees, saying he will stand by John Ashcroft for Attorney General and Gayle Norton for Interior Secretary.

A 1971 work by Steve Reich, "Drumming" is widely considered a masterpiece of minimalism.