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Robert Siegel speaks with Wall Street Journal sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about some of the news coming out of Major League Baseball's winter meetings. Among the news: The Montreal Expos will play some of their home games in Puerto Rico. The Atlanta Braves managed to trade for a star pitcher they won't have to pay for a few years. And baseball's future as an Olympic sport may be dim.

The much-publicized debate over a push to admit women to Georgia's Augusta National Golf Club -- the all-male home of the fabled Masters tournament -- shows no signs of fading away. Joshua Levs reports.

On Monday night, Pete Alonso of the New York Mets won the Home Run Derby at Coors Field in Denver.

NPR's Tovia (TOE-vee-uh) Smith reports on a fight in Connecticut and a number of other states over how best to care for mentally retarded adults. A number of states have closed down their mental instituions, favoring instead smaller home based programs. But some in Connecticut defend the state's largest such institution, the Southbury Training School...saying it is not the cold cruel place critics charge it is.

Clarinetist, bandleader, and curmudgeon...but kind of a right-on curmudgeon. Shaw quit playing music more than thirty years ago...just when he had what most might consider "it all": money, fame, beautiful wives (lots of them). Now he lives alone and writes novels and short stories. Dean Olsher visited him at home and has this report.

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports on two federal HMO programs for the elderly. People who join get not just medical care - they also receive social supports like home nursing aides -- but members are limited to the health care providers in the HMOs. The goal is to keep people as healthy as possible as long as possible while holding down costs. So far, at least, there are few complaints about the programs.

Danny speaks to Rwanda's Ambassador to the United States, Theogene Rudasingwa. The Rwandan diplomat says the return of the refugees back home obviates the need for a multinational force, whose original mission was to secure the refugees against attacks by Hutu militiamen. With the militamen now on the run, Rudasingwa says his country can be responsible for security. But he now wants international donors who sustained the refugees in their camps to give the funds to Rwanda for their resettlement.

Linda talks with Tyler Nordgren, a graduate student of astronomy at Cornell University. They talks about how Carl Sagan, who died today at the age of 62, inspired him to study astronomy. Nordgren used to rush home from school to watch Sagan's PBS series "Cosmos" on television, and eventually decided to study interacting galaxies as a result.

Commentator Leonard Rosen compares himself and his family's holiday visits to the seasonal migration of birds, whales and other animals, whose instints force them to travel, sometimes hundreds of miles, to get "back home." In observing the travel patterns of millions of people during the holiday season, Rosen notes that people also have that instinctual urge to "get up, move, go back."

Noah has a remembrance of country singer Faron Young (FAIR-enn), who died today of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police found Young yesterday at his home. A former member of the Grand Old Opry, Young is best-known for his 1961 hit, "Hello Walls," which hit number one on the country charts.