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  • Writer Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka. He was 90. He's best known for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he wrote many dozens of science fiction novels. Clarke, a trained scientist who united intellectual rigor with imagination, inspired generations of writers and scientists with his powerfully humane vision of the future.
  • Voters in New Hampshire and Iowa will send a crowded Democratic field of presidential candidates a message early in 2004. And now they have a tenth candidate to consider: Retired Gen. Wesley Clark. Hear reports from NPR's Linda Wertheimer in New Hampshire and Joyce Russell in Iowa.
  • The Lewis and Clark National Bicentennial Exhibition makes its final stop this summer at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum. Author Landon Jones says Lewis gets the most attention, but Clark shaped the voyage... and the West.
  • A group of students contemplates the dilemma facing Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in 1805: where to spend the winter after they had reached the Pacific Ocean. Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.
  • Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, 83, was a mentor to Miles Davis and performed with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. He recently donated his archive of memorabilia to William Paterson University in New Jersey. NPR's Jacki Lyden interviews Terry just before he takes the stage at New York's Jazz Gallery.
  • Counterterrorism expert served for 30 years, under several presidents; he joins Dave Davies to discuss what he describes as a culture of mediocrity in U.S. national-security programs.
  • In the first half, Michelle Hughes of the Life Crisis Center speakers about the recent rash of sexual harassment cases against public figures. In the…
  • Social scientist and educator Kenneth Clark died Sunday in New York at age 90. Clark and his wife Mamie were the originators of the famous doll studies on the harmful effects of racism on black children, cited in the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which struck down segregation in public schools.
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