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On Thursday, Microsoft announced a whooping $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, a merger that would give Google a run for the money. A deal that combines the second and third largest online search companies is likely to attract antitrust review. Greg Sidak, U.S. editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics offers some insight.

Korva Coleman speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the nnenberg School for Communication, about a new study on children's television iewing habits. 6:54 . ANSWERING MACHINES: Korva Coleman speaks with Peter Crabb, professor of sychology at Pennsylvania State University in Philadelphia. He's just published study in the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality on the way answering achines have changed the way we interact. The answering machine was patented 25 ears ago this year.

29) Cross Promo (:29) Station Break (:59) Forward Promo (:29) Headlines (:59) 6. Hong Kong Rights -- Jacki speaks with Edward Gargen, the New York Times correspondent in Hong Kong. Gargen says a recent statement by Hong Kong's Chinese-appointed new chief executive that he will roll back civil liberties after China regains sovereignty in July is meant to underscore Peking's determination to show that it will make the rules in Hong Kong, not the British.

TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI reviewed The Beatles Anthology which is out on video. (This is an expanded 10-hour version of the 6-hour version which aired on television last fall).

Embattled Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) appears on Black Entertainment Television to apologize again for his remarks alluding to the glory of America's segregated past. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans will meet Jan. 6 to decide Lott's fate as majority leader. NPR's Juan Williams reports.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on today's budget surplus forecast by the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO is projecting a surplus of more than three-trillion dollars over the next decade -- or 5.6-trillion if you count the Social Security surplus. Republicans say that means there's plenty of room for a big tax cut. Democrats argue that the projections of a huge surplus may be overly optimistic in the long term. They are supporting smaller tax cuts.

New trade rules lifting quotas on garment exports are having an impact for many countries. One such country is the tiny African nation of Lesotho, where six factories have closed and some 6,000 workers have lost their jobs.

Germany unveils a memorial in central Berlin to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Politicians, Jewish leaders and Holocaust survivors were on hand for the solemn ceremony to inaugurate the monument designed by American architect Peter Eisenman. The opening ends 17 years of debate over how Germany should mark the darkest chapter of its past.

More than 6,000 police departments around the country now use tasers, the electronic stun guns that have been hailed as an alternative to lethal force. But Taser International, which makes the weapons, is facing questions about the safety of its products, and the accuracy of its sales reports. NPR's Laura Sullivan reports.

Melissa Block talks with John Reeves, self-described freeform industrial ice artist. Reeves is the artistic genius behind a 160-foot tall ice sculpture outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. Using strategically placed sprinklers, Reeves estimates that he flows about 6,000 gallons of water onto the sculpture every hour.