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SCOTT TALKS WITH NPR'S AFRICA REPORTER MICHAEL SKOLER. THE U-N IS SET TO COMPLETE A REMOVAL OF ITS TROOPS FROM SOMALIA BY THE END OF MARCH, BUT IS THE OUTLOOK FOR THE COUNTRY ANY BETTER THAN IT WAS TWO YEARS AGO WHEN TROOPS ARRIVED?

SIMON/LETTERS: SCOTT READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

NPR'S LYNN NEARY REPORTS ON THE SUGGESTION FROM SOME REPUBLICANS THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR HELP TO DEFRAY SOME OF THE COSTS OF WELFARE REFORM. SHE VISITS SOME CATHOLIC-RUN CHARITIES' PROGRAMS -- AMONG THE BIGGEST PRIVATE PROGRAMS -- AND FINDS THAT, THERE, GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IS ALSO LARGE.

Sarah Shapiro is an American writer who recently described her recollections as a 5-year old member of the Hiroshima Maidens, a group of 25 young Japanese women who were brought to the United States for medical treatment following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports.

LIANE HANSEN EWSCASTERS: SHAY STEVENS & LAURA KNOY

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that trade sanctions against China were announced today in retaliation for trademark infringements, after the Chinese government refused to crackdown on companies that manufacture pirate CDs, movies and computer programs.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on a last minute U.S. and China agreement that will avert a trade war over pirated music, movies and computer software.

SCOTT TALKS WITH MARTIN GOLDSMITH, HOST OF NPR'S "PERFORMANCE TODAY," ABOUT TWO NOTED EVENTS IN THE CLASSICAL MUSIC WORLD THIS MONTH: THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, AND THE NAMING OF HANS VONK TO SUCCEED LEONARD SLATKIN AS MUSIC DIRECTOR OF THE ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY. THEY'LL DISCUSS THE DEBATE ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS WITH REGARD TO REPERTOIRE--SHOULD THE FOCUS BE ON EUROPEAN OR AMERICAN COMPOSERS?

SIMON/CLARKE: SCOTT TALKS WITH SCIENCE FICTION WRITER ARTHUR C. CLARKE, WHO RECEIVED AN HONORARY DEGREE BY SATELLITE THIS WEEK FROM LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY.

Today is the 150th anniversary of the publication of dgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." The poem made Poe an overnight celebrity fter struggling in obscuity for twenty years. Actor Richard Bauer eads "The Raven."