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Satire from Harry Shearer and an idea for helping to pay for a costly presidential bid.

Noah talks with Marc Ratner, president of the Association of Boxing Commissions, about boxer Tommy Morrison, who publicly announced he has the AIDS virus. Ratner says Morrison's career is essentially over, that it is illegal for him to fight in Nevada, and that he hopes other states will follow suit. Boxing, he says, is a bloodsport, unlike other sports, and that HIV-positive athletes have no place in the ring if there is a chance, no matter how small, of transmission of the virus to another boxer or a ringside observer.

by flooding along the Greenbrier River in the southeastern part of the state and along the Ohio River in the northwestern part.

NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports on President Clinton's opportunity to deliver a message to the nation tonight in his State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports the Compuserve online service has reinstated most of the 200 discussion groups it had banned after German authorities complained about sexually explicit material on the internet. Compuserve said it was distributing software "filters" which will allow users to restrict access to certain newsgroups available through Compuserve.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that a new study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences found that the risk of cancer from both natural and unnatural carcinogens in food is neglible. While some foods contain chemicals that can cause cancer in animals, the levels are so low they pose no real dange, the report says. That especially true when compared to the risk for cancer from other things, such as eating too much fat, the report says.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that in the wake of Sunday's suicide attacks in Israel, Israelis are demanding that the PLO crack down on Muslim extremists, and make the terrorist organization, Hamas, illegal.

Noah speaks with Hirsh Goodman, editor-in-chief of the Israeli news magazine, The Jerusalem Report, about the political fallout of the bombings for Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Goodman says the bombings confirm the view that Israeli and Palestinians cannot live together in peace and that the peace process will have to lead to a divorce.

Noah visits the Midnight Shakespeare program at the Gilman Street Recreation Center in San Francisco. About twenty high schools students gather three evenings a week for acting classes taught by local professional actors affiliated with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. The teachers say that the students learn more than the classics; they leave the program with the ability to take another person's attitude or point of view.

NPR's Renee Montagne reports that this Monday the Supreme Court will hear a case that examines whether African-Americans are the subject of special prosecution in federal drug cases. Some argue that blacks are prosecuted in disproportionately high numbers when compared to whites.