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Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports that a judge has ruled that school children in New York City aren't receiving a large enough portion of the state's education dollars. He says inadequate funding is costing the students a sufficient education.

NPR's Larry Abramson reports on researchers that are studying how to fight a specific type of virus--the kind that attacks your computer.

NPR's Eric Westervelt reports on what one Maryland school district is doing to combat gun violence. The district requires gun safety awareness for all grade levels. So far the curriculum satisfies most parents on both sides of the gun issues, and other school districts are looking to the program as a model.

Several environmental groups are protesting President-elect George Bush's nomination for Interior Secretary Gale Norton. NPR's Peter Overby reports on efforts to derail the nomination.

In the U.S, new roads built in national forests has just been banned by executive order. But in Canada old growth forest is being leveled at a rate that alarms environmentalists. NPR's Kathy Schalch reports.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on a recent discovery about stars that's confirming observations Chinese astronomers made over a thousand years ago. The discovery has to do with the position of a pulsar...also known as a spinning neutron star...within the remnants of a supernova.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on a new study showing that most states fail to give public school students the help they need to succeed.

Jason Beaubien reports on President Clinton's return to New Hampshire, the state he credits with giving him the momentum to say in the 1992 Presidential race. Clinton used today's speech in Dover to talk about the social and economic improvements of the last eight years.

Dave Hirschman, reporter for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and author of Hijacked: the Heroes of Flight 705, joins Robert by phone to talk about the new arrangement between Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service. (4:30) Hijacked: the Heroes of Flight 705, is published by William Morrow, 1998.

As the controversy over the use of Depleted Uranium weapons heats up in Europe, NPR's David Kestenbaum takes a long hard look at what the science says - and doesn't say - about the possible health risks.