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NPR'S ELIZABETH ARNOLD HAS BEEN FOLLOWING NEWLY-HOT GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE STEVE FORBES AROUND IOWA. SHE FILES THIS REPORT.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a hallenge for everyone at home. (This week's player is Bob Gilewski from Baton ouge, Louisiana. His public radio station is WRKF in Baton Rouge.)

Daniel talks wtih Dr. John Wennberg of Dartmouth Medical School about a recent study which found that medical care varies dramatically depending on what part of the country your in. The lesson, Wennberg says, is that America doesn't have a health care "system" and that many of the medical decisions made are due to supply and not demand.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the weather continues to plague parts of the country. Today is was flooding in Pennsylvania and Ohio, among other places; and sub-zero temperatures in northern states such as Minnesota.

JANUARY 21,

IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH BRODSKY WHO DIED THIS WEEK, WE AIR A 1986 PROFILE OF THE POET BY KETZEL LEVINE, WEEKEND EDITION'S GARDENING CONSULTANT, WHO USED TO BE AN ARTS REPORTER FOR NPR.

Film critic Bob Mondello reviews Clifton Taulbert's film memoir, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored. The drama chronicles Taulbert's coming of age in the segregated South.

Danny talks with NPR's Lynn Neary, who attended a meeting of conservative Christian voters in Memphis, Tennessee today. All the presidential contenders from both parties were invited to attend, but President Clinton, and more interestingly, Bob Dole, did not show up. Lynn says that Dole, who said he had a scheduling conflict, may have stayed away because he is not terribly popular among conservative Christian voters...or because he may not believe he needs their support to capture the Republican nomination for presidency.

LIANE HANSEN