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Linda Wertheimer talks with Kristine Larson of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Larson gave birth to a healthy baby boy yesterday after being driven part way to a hospital on the back of a tractor. Snow drifts of up to eight feet prevented an ambulance from reaching Larson. The tractor, equipped with a bucket loader, dug itself a path to a highway where an ambulance was waiting.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports on Texas Senator Phil Gramm, who has been campaigning for the Republican nomination for president for well over a year and the first big test comes Feb. 12 in the Iowa caucuses. That will be his chance to see if he can close the gap between himself and Senator Bob Dole, who is presumed to be well ahead of all the other GOP contenders. Gramm is confident he can show his candidacy gaining strength. With a message designed to win over fiscal and social conservatives, Gramm says he's the candidate best able to carry out the Republican agenda, and that the key to his viability is carrying out the promises his party made in 1994.

Linda Werthimer talks with White House advisor Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the national economic advisor to the President about the suspension of budget negotiations. After 50 hours of talks, the Republicans and the President still have not reached a settlement of the terms of the budget. Ms. Tyson tells us what the White House hopes to achieve and preserve in the budget, and explains the differences between the Republicans and White House hopes for Medicare and tax cuts.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the continued finger pointing in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A national debate in Israel about who and what fostered the climate for such extremism. While some are pointing to the rhetoric of of nationalist rabbis others are looking to elite religious schools called Yeshivas. The lone gunman Yigal Amir attended one of these schools, schools that religious and military studies.

but he doubts there's the political will in the White House to do so, which might explain why Mr. Clinton's party lost the votes of workers in the 1994 congressional elections.

and former colleague -- Mike Synar, who died Tuesday of brain cancer. They both served in the House of Representatives, and Edwards believes the American people had in Synar a good example of public service.

NPR's Joe Palca explains 'sublimation,' the direct transition from a solid to a gas without any liquid phase. Snow, to some degree, disappears through this process.

From northern Bosnia, NPR's Martha Raddatz reports from one of the United States Army base camps. This camp and others like it will be home for the 20-thousand U.S. soldiers who are part of the NATO implementation force. They'll be responsible for patrolling the 200-mile long border between the Muslim-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serbs.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on how other cities and states have dealt with the problem New York City is currently dealing with: reforming the way child welfare is directed.

Nocebo - Daniel talks with Harvard's Dr. Herbert Benson about the "placebo effect". Basically, this effect is when people believe a medical procedure will help them and based on belief more than the procedure, the individual's health will actually improve. Benson discusses some of the most recent studies that show how belief affects the body physiologically and how physicians can use this information in the healing process.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with sports reporter Robin Roberts of ABC and ESPN about this week's major sports activities. They include the Australian Open tennis finals, NBA All-Star voting, Rudy Galindo's figure skating victory and, of course, the Super Bowl.

Daniel speaks with Ernie Manuelito and Cal Tuchin of radio station KTNN in Window Rock, Arizona...about tonight's first-ever broadcast of a Super Bowl in the Navajo language.

Catalina Reyes of member station KUNM reports that the state of New Mexico is trying to shut down Native American casinos across the state. The tribes have been operating casinos under an agreement with the federal government, but state courts have nullified that agreement, insisting that since gambling is not legal elsewhere in the state, it can't be allowed on the reservation. The tribes say they'll blockade highways through the reservation if they're shut down. Both sides have agreed to keep casinos and roads open until a U.S. court decides the matter.

NPR's David Molpus reports that an estimated eight million working Americans are now -- or soon will -- be providing substantial care for an elderly relative. For most people, providing care while continuing to work is stressful. Now, some employers are taking steps to ease the burden of providing care for elderly relatives.

Commentator Paul Durrenberger says that the Superbowl is one of our main national observances. It is purified ritual and as gripping as any celebration that was invented earlier. He figures we must be a nation starved for drama -- so much so that we have to create our own. We lack the public spectacles of the Romans, Greeks and Mayas and so we demand it from our professional sports.

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NPR's Chitra Ragavan talks to federal workers who went back to work today. Federal workers had been kept off the job first by the federal budget impasse, and then by the blizzard. With more snow on the way, and budget talks uncertain, the future remains up in the air.

Satire from Harry Shearer.

Patrick Cox of member station W-B-U-R reports from coastal Massachusetts on the snow's impact and concerns about high tide and coastal flooding.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports from Jerusalem on the $500 million missile defense system, to be funded by the US and Israel, which is designed to protect Israel from weapons of mass destruction. After meeting with Prime Minister Shimon Perez, U-S Defense Secretary William Perry also said the U-S would be willing to station U-S troops in the Golan Heights to guarantee peace.