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Doctor MEL GREAVES, author of Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy (Oxford University Press. GREAVES is professor of cell biology and director of the Leukemia Research Fund Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London. GREAVES places cancer in its evolutionary context, using examples from the 15th century to the most contemporary research. GREAVES talks about the importance of looking at cancer through a Darwinian lens. He says there may be implications for research, prevention, and treatment. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW) 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

A special commission set up by Congress to study the accuracy of the consumer price index has concluded the C.P.I. overstates inflation by approximately 1.1%. The commission, headed up by former Bush Administration economic advisor, Michael Boskin, made several recommendations for correcting the upward bias...which costs the federal government billions of dollars every year because the C.P.I. is used to adjust benefit payments to millions of American retirees and veterans. NPR's John Ydstie reports.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook on the showing of Slobodan Milosevic in last Sunday's election in Yugoslavia; Gloria Feldt, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Laura Echevaria of the National Right to Life Committee on the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill RU-486; Senator John McCain and Jim Gianopulos, chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee on marketing violent media to young people; Senator Richard Bryan (Democrat, Nevada), Attorney General Janet Reno, and Senator Richard Shelby (Republican, Alabama) at a hearing on the government's handling of the Wen Ho Lee case; Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore.

2: Journalist PETER GODWIN. His new memoir is "Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa" (The Atlantic Monthly Press), about growing up in Rhodesia in 1964 as the British colony is collapsing. G0DWIN was formerly a foreign correspondent for the London Sunday Times. He now makes television documentaries for the BBC.

Anthony Lake, President Clinton's embattled nominee to head the C.I.A., received two pieces of good news yesterday. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.

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NPR's Laura Ziegler reports that the drug P.C.P. is back. Phencyclidine (fen-SIE-kluh-deen) has been in and out of vogue in U.S. cities over the last 30 years. In its powdered form, P.C.P. is known as "angel dust" or "crystal"... but it's as a liquid that the drug is making a comeback. At a press conference last week, federal authorities cited an increasing demand, especially among young people, for liquid P.C.P.

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committee chair of the committee on Intelligence about the withdraw of Lake's nomination to head the C.I.A.

Goody-goody singer Pat Boone has come out with a C-D of heavy metal tunes. Susan has some thoughts about this.