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New York...NPR's Barbara Mantel profiles first-year teacher Christa Cobelli as she struggles to maintain order in her seventh grade classroom.

The city of Grand Forks, North Dakota has literally been inundated in the flooding that has paralyzed the northern plains. Ray talks with evacuee Lynn Wooten and Red Cross worker Tim Manatt from a rescue center at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. Wooten says her boyfriend didn't want to leave their apartment until the very last minute. Manatt says several of the kids at the resuce center built a little bowling alley to ease the boredom.

companies from the Northeast and Middle Atlantic, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic, has been given a green light by the Justice Deaprtment. The companies claim the deal will allow them to improve their services and move into new fields like video, but consumer groups think the merger will reduce competition and raise prices.

are protesting alleged harassment by Chicago police during last year's Democratic National Convention. They filed a lawsuit yesterday claiming the city's police violated a 15-year-old court order limiting surveillance and prohibiting potentially abusive tactics. Just last month, the city asked that the court order be relaxed, saying it has hampered police investigations of gangs and drug traffickers.

in the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports the long battle for Conrail, the northeast's dominant railroad, appears to be coming to an end. Conrail's Board of Directors has approved a $10.5 billion buyout offer from Richmond, Virginia based CSX. CSX will then sell significant parts of Conrail to its main competitor, Norfolk Southern. Analysts say the breakup of Conrail will bring some much-needed competition to the Northeast.

NPR's Richard Harris looks at a controversial new study that suggests there may be an up and down in the universe, after all. Until now, physicists and astronomers have based their theories on the idea that there is NO directionality in the universe -- that it is spread out evenly. But the new report analyzed radio waves from 160 distant galaxies and concludes that there is a kind of north-south axis in the universe.

Movie reviewer Bob Mondello talks about impossible movie geography... when an actor turns a corner and ends up in a different city, or the sun sets gently in the East. It's a commentary about how disorienting it all is... inspired by the idiocy of the newly-released film "Murder at 1600."

Commentator Bob Deans says women's basketball has done a lot for girls, who now know that you don't have to wear a bikini to get into Sports Illustrated. He should know as he nears the end of a satisfying year coaching his young daughter's basketball team.

Linda talks about new efforts by President Clinton to clamp down on gun violence.