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With all the hype surrounding new advances in information technology, what is truth and what is fiction? PAUL DUGUID (DO-good), co-author of –The Social Life of Information,— (Harvard Business School Press) helps us answer that question. DUGUID is a Research Associate in Social and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and consultant at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In their book, Duguid and co-author John Seely Brown, distinguish between the predictions of pundits and futurists (those who predicted that paper communication would be obsolete and home offices would be the norm,)and the reality of todays offices and work spaces. 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Professor and writer ANDRE ACIMAN, author of "Out of Egypt: A Memoir." (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The book follows ACIMAN's close-knit, flamboyant Jewish family through 50 years of residence in Alexandria. The family was forced to leave Egypt when ACIMAN was 14, during a long wave of Anti-Semitism and Arab nationalism. In –Out of Egypt,— ACIMAN explores the lives and relationships of his grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts, and finally his own emotions about leaving his idyllic childhood home. His new book of essays is called False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. (ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 2/13/95) 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (1:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Writer FRANK MCCOURT recently won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his memoir "Angela's Ashes" (Scribner) which is still on the bestseller list. Last October he talked with Terry Gross about the book. It recounts his experiences growing up desperately poor in Ireland. McCourt lives in New York. (This interview is REBROADCAST from 10/24/96.) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).12:28:30 FORWARD broadcast (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

Hear new tracks from Bill Callahan and Elf Power. A young hip-hop collective samples Carol Burnett and Aloonaluna reminds Lars Gotrich of The NeverEnding Story.

This means any profits made on the currency will be taxed at the lower, capital-gains rate. The rule, however, also means investors have to keep extensive records.

One reason it was searched for over and over again on Merriam-Webster's online dictionary: Americans were looking for the right word to describe what they want from politicians.

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The northern regional capital has become a frequent target of Russian drones, missiles and guided bombs. Now, Ukraine's top general says at least 50,000 Russian troops have massed across the border.

Republicans have been complaining about deficits forever. This was their big chance to do something. Why didn't they?

Chef Nephi Craig of the Apaches in the Kitchen blog reflects on what the "mainstream" culinary world has to learn about Native foodways.