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Tonight's the night for last-minute shoppers everywhere to panic and buy any Christmas present they can get their hands on. Noah talks with Tia Tollivero, merchandise manager at J.C. Penney in Charlotte, NC about who's buying and what's selling. The answer -- men and lingerie.

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Cary Ginell (JINN-el) of member station K-C-L-U in Thousand Oaks, California, has written about the music of Texan Milton Brown. Brown invented a style known as Western Swing 65 years ago. Ginell explains the combination of musical styles that resulted in Brown's taste in music: basically a love of popular music of Tin Pan Alley and the flavor of Texas hoedowns. Brown died young and achieved fame only in his native state. A bandmember of Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, Bob Wills, went on to enjoy great success with the style.

to join the peace process during his meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Clinton hope the recent Hebron Accord signing will encourage other Mid-East leaders to join the effort. Netanyahu remains in Washington D.C. today to meet with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

- Longtime N-B-C television news reporter and anchor John Chancellor died yesterday. We have a tribute.

NPR's Kathy Schalch reports the White House today unveiled a $3.9 billion five-year federal aid plan for Washington D.C. Officials said they want to end the $3.56 billion federal payment to the city it would have made over that period. Under the proposal the federal goverment would assume the city's pension liabilities for police, firefighters, judges and teachers.

Ever since Mapplethorpe and Serrano put the National Endowment for the Arts into the spotlight, arts advocates have come to Washington, D.C., on Arts Advocacy Day to try to convince memebers of Congress to continue federal funding of the arts and humanities. But when Republicans took over Congress, the more conservative members came to an informal agreement with the leadership that funding for the National Endowment for the Arts would be reduced over two years and zeroed out in the third. This is the third year...so this year's advocates have their work cut out for them. NPR's Dean Olsher reports.

Liane speaks with David Stork, author of "HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality" (MIT Press). In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, the HAL 9000 became operational on today's date. Stork says we've achieved and even surpassed some of HAL's accomplishments, yet we have a long way to go in other areas of artificial intelligence.

Laura Sydell of member station W-N-Y-C reports on President Clinton's meeting in New York today with the families of those who died on TWA flight 800.