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Robert talks to Dr. Gary Hack, who teaches at the dental school at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Yesterday he presented a paper on his discovery of a previously undescribed muscle in the face. He says that it is attached behind the eye and to the top of the jaw and helps us to chew. Many anatomists are skeptical, saying that it is highly unlikely that there could be a muscle in the face that was not previously discovered.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Moscow that Boris Yeltsin has announced he wants to continue as the Russian president. Yeltsin has apparently decided to run for re-election in June despite poor health and low ratings in opinion polls.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports on what Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke is calling new 'rules of the road' for arresting war criminals in Bosnia. Names of suspected war criminals must be sent to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague...only those approved by the tribunal may be detained. NATO meanwhile is laying out its plans for arresting war criminals. NATO has been criticized in recent days for failing to detain indicted bosnian serb officials who've been making very public appearances in NATO controlled areas in recent days.

Commentator Stuart Cheifet says that the computer industry is unlike any other ...after consumers spend thousands of dollars on new products, those investments become obsolete in eighteen months...and rather than offer trade ins or recalls, you are just expected to spend more money.

to pressure Rwandan refugees to go home.

of the Republican presidential race and what effect it might have on his re-election bid there.

The death of a snowboarder buried in an avalanche is the fifth in Colorado this year. Mark Roberts reports that technology designed to locate people caught in avalanches is only useful if people cooperate. But search and rescue experts say the new breed of backcountry 'boarders and outdoor enthusiasts are risk-takers.

Robert talks to Scotsman Pete Haywood, in Washington, D.C. to attend the the international folk conference. Haywood tried to bring the late Scottish poet Robert Burns with him, but the airline wouldn't allow the paper mache figure on board witout paying a giant fare. So Burns is stuck across the Atlantic. We also hear the music of Ed Miller, playing the lyrics of Robbie Burns.

president of the Flight Safety Foundation, about the expensive and difficult process of locating the "black boxes" from the Boeing 757 that crashed into 4,000 feet of water off the coast of the Dominican Republic. 189 people, mostly Germnan tourists, died when the plane went down without warning last Tuesday.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the rift between secular and religious Jews in Israel. In the wake of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a religious Jew, many find they are being characterized as extremists. But religious Jews condemn the assassin's actions, saying they would never condone murder on religious grounds.