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Liane Hansen speaks with NPR's Julie McCarthy about the atest disaster relief efforts in Kobe, Japan. Following last week's atastrophic earthquake, landslides and an influenza epidemic are the latest azards to befall the port city. The death toll from the quake has now topped 9-hundred.

Jacki talks to Rolling Stone editor Anthony DeCurtis about the new CD by Throwing Muses, "University." DeCurtis says that Throwing Muses was a precursor to the group of young bands led by women that have recently become popular. There are a lot of nonnarrative lyrics in the songs by the bandleader, Kristin Hersh, who uses the voices of her children and the ocean in some of the compositions.

Liane Hansen speaks with singer Petula Clark, best known for er 1960's top forty hits "Downtown" and "I Know A Place." A versatile erformer, Petula currently stars as Mrs. Johnstone in the touring production f the Willy Russell musical, "Bloodbrothers." 11:27 "Bloodbrothers" will be performed in Denver, CO on Jan

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Jacki talks with California Fish and Game Department official Perry Hergesell about the somewhat beneficial effects--for San Francisco Bay--of this month's devastating floods.

THE EIGHT-DAY SUMMIT MEETING HELD BETWEEN U.S. PRESIDENT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL AND SOVIET LEADER JOSEPH STALIN ENDED AT THE SMALL CRIMEAN RESORT TOWN OF YALTA 50 YEARS AGO TODAY. NPR'S ANDY BOWERS PREPARED THIS REPORT.

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Author Peter Stark really loves winter. He has written lovingly bout the joys of ice and snow. Many of the pieces he's written for Smithsonian nd Outside magazines now appear in a new book: "Driving to Greenland - Arctic ravel, Northern Sport, and Other Ventures into the Heart of Winter." Reporter illiam Marcus accompanied Stark on a crunchy ice-climbing adventure, and rought back the details.

Daniel talks to David Rydowski, a lawyer in Philadelphia, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Florida) about the crime legislation passed by the House of Representatives this week. It allows for some evidence acquired improperly to be allowed in court. McCollum says that people are tired of criminals avoiding convictions on technicalities, but Rydowski is afraid that it would be a a violation of the Constitutional protection against illegal search and seizure.

The Animal Welfare movement is affecting the way the fur rapping industry does its business. Paula Dobbyn (DAH-bin) of member station -T-O-O in Juneau reports on the Alaska Fish and Game Department's reaction to he newly approved ban on steel, leg-hold animal traps. In an effort to save the rapping industry in Alaska, department officials are holding seminars to ducate fur trappers in alternative snare methods, emphasizing the importance of ur trapping to the local economy.