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NPR's David Baron talks to meteorologists about the kinds of conditions that are necessary to produce a major snow storm. Experts say they're the same kind of conditions needed for an average storm, only more so.

In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.

Danny speaks with former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who recently returned from his first trip to Vietnam since the war ended some 20 years ago.

Danny talks to Washington Post reporter Susan Schmidt about the Senate Whitewater committee's decision yesterday to subpoena the White House for notes on a meeting at which the president's personal lawyers and aides discussed Whitewater. The White House has refused to release the notes, invoking Mister Clinton's attorney-client privilege. Schmidt says the matter is likely to be decided by the courts during the coming presidential election year.

Richard Hearney is the second highest ranking officer in the U.S. Marines. This past week he visited the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange to see what the energetic floor traders there can teach marines about quick decision-making. Daniel speaks with the general about his experience.

NPR's Joe Palca reports that researchers at Stanford University have proposed a new theory for why we sleep. Although many theories have been put forth in the past to explain the purpose of sleep, none has been proven. The new theory proposes that sleep is necessary to replenish energy supplies for brain cells.

NPR's John Greenberg reports on an interview Hillary Rodham Clinton gave to NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday. Mrs. Clinton discusses her troubles over the Whitewater and White House Travel office disputes.

This week President Clinton signed the National Highway Safety Bill. One of its provisions stops the Federal Government from threatening states that don't have a motorcycle helmet law. Discussions of whether or not to wear motorcycle helmets are controversial and Daniel uses the issue to examine the issue of public safety versus personal freedom.

Linda talks with Robin Roberts of ESPN and ABC's Wide World of Sports. The Green Bay Packers will face off against the Dallas Cowboys this weekend in the NFC Championship Game while the Pittsburgh Steelers will host the Indianapolis Colts for the AFC title. Robin reviews the two match-ups and discusses the Australian Open.

Ballet dancer Jacques d'Amboise is among the performing artists who will be honored at the Kennedy Center here in Washington, D.C. tonight for outstanding achievement in the performing arts. d'Amboise made a career performing in George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. He then went on to found the National Dance Institute. Kim Kokich prepared this appreciation.

Daniel speaks with Bob Marbourg, traffic reporter for the Washngton D.C. am news station WTOP. Marbourg explains the importance of driving slowly in snowy conditions and he has a few tips for drivers who dare to venture out when the weather's not at it's best.

Reporter Linda Gradstein reports from the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was gunned down last night at a rally. She describes reaction from Israeli officials and preparations for the funeral tomorrow.

Daniel talks with Scott Henggeler, Professor of Psychiatry at the South Carolina Medical University in Charleston, and Secretary of Public Safety for Virginia, Jerry Kilgore about the issue of whether or not juveniles as young as 14 should be tried as adults when they commit violent crimes. Kilgore co-chaired a commission set up by Virginia's governor that has recomended that for certain violent crimes, juveniles be treated as adults. Scott Henggeler says while some juveniles should be tried as adults, his research has shown that many of those juveniles are salvageable with proper treatment and rehabilitation.

In a new report, activists say ICE systematically retaliates against them for their work, despite the agency's denials. Advocates want the Biden administration to officially forbid the practice.

Linda speaks with Dr. Brian Ettinger, an endocronoligist with the Research Division of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California. Dr. Ettinger authored a study about the benefits of taking estrogen hormone pills. According to this new study, there is strong evidence that taking estrogen hormone pills offers protection against heart attacks and strokes in postmenopausal women. The study found that there was a 46 percent reduction in the rate of death from all causes in these women. Dr. Ettinger's study appears today in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Commentator Larry Magid says that all the hoopla over Windows '95 may have been just that. So far the new computer operating system hasn't really changed Larry's life -- at least not compared to what changed when he went from his IBM Selectric to his first computer.

Today at noon across the country, church bells were rung to mark a day of prayer for the U.S. and other NATO peacekeepers in Bosnia, and for those they protect. The event was called for by Christian, Muslim and Jewish leaders nationwide.

Fifty years ago from tomorrow, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial got underway in Nuremberg Germany. 24 Nazi leaders, officials and industrialists were charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. On the second day of the trial, Robert Jackson, chief US prosecutor delivered his opening statement that lasted the better part of a day. Here's an excerpt.

Noah Adams talks to Dot Jackson, who lives by herself near the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. She says that she hasn't had power for two days because of the weather, but she isn't too cold because she has a wood stove. She says that whenever she goes to get wood, all the birds hiding from the cold in her woodpile fly out.

Noah Adams talks to author Mary Cable about the 1888 storm that closed down the East Coast and taught the nation about the vulnerability of telegraph wires and trains to severe weather. The storm led to the building of New York City subways and the concept of buried cables.