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WEEKEND EDITION'S DANIEL SCHORR EXAMINES THE PROSPECTS FOR THE BUDGET TALKS...AND HOW THEY'RE PLAYING AROUND AMERICA, WITH FORMER CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE DIRECTOR ROBERT REISCHAUER AND WITH PROFESSOR ALAN GITELSON OF LOYOLA UNIVERSITY IN CHICAGO.

Robert talks with Teresa Tritch, Washington bureau chief of Money magazine, about the economic premise behind the flat tax, an idea that figures prominently in some Republican presidential campaigns. Tritch explains who the winners and losers would be if such a tax code were implemented.

Today's issue of the scientific journal Nature reports that crows reshape twigs and leaves to get to insects that the birds normally couldn't reach. The clever crows live on the island of New Caladonia, northwest of Australia.

We continue our four-part series about the Balkan Conflict. In part three... the rise of nationalism in Croatia from independence to war. Noah talks to Brian Hall, author of "The Impossible Country," about Croatia's break from the former Yugoslavia and Dr. Franjo (Fran-yo) Tujdman's (TUGE-mans) rise to the presidency. Mr. Hall describes the longstanding resentment Croats have had for the Serbs, and the threat Croat nationalist symbols played in provoking the conflict.

earthquake. 6000 people died in the quake; it was one of the worst natural disasters to strike Japan in this century.

Noah speaks with Christina Bokenkamp, a 17-year-old junior at Kearney (CAR-ney) High School in Kearney, Nebraska. She and her schoolmates were trapped overnight yesterday at school by the heavy snows and ice that paralyzed the Midwest. It was a memorable adventure, but she does regret not having brought a tooth brush.

SIMON/ELVIS: ELVIS MITCHELL REVIEWS THE NEW MOVIE "WAITING TO EXHALE"

Linda Wertheimer talks with Steve Bauer, executive director of the non-profit Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund, based in Littleton, Colorado. He tells how applications for loans are flooding in from all over the country by employees hurt by the federal budget stalemate.

Mary Jo Draper from member station KCUR in Kansas City, Missouri, reports on a severe winter storm that tore across the Plains and parts of the Southwest yesterday and today. Several states including Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma were frozen by sleet, snow and wind. In parts of Minnesota and North Dakota, high-winds have blown the snow into huge drifts, shutting down highways and in some places keeping snow plows off the roads.

Poet Jack Perletsky offers his own thoughts about a special breed of bird: The Flying Hot Dog.