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Danny treks around various sites in Washington,D.C., which is in the midst of a huge winter storm that's likely to deposit upwards of 20 inches of snow on the ground. He begins at the Capitol Building, where kids are sledding down the building's steps; then Danny talks with a meteorologist from the National Weather Service who says this storm may be one of the biggest ever in the mid-Atlantic region; finally, Danny visits a homeless shelter not far from Capitol Hill.

Daniel speaks with Marion Nestle about this past week's endoresment of vegetarian diets by the federal government. Nestle was on the USDA panel that issued the guidelines on vegetarian diets and she says that for many years there's been evidence to show that eating vegetarian is healthy.

fire stock market columnist Dan Dorfman, for refusing to tell editors the names of anonymous sources he used in his stories. Dorfman also does commentary for the NBC cable television network, CNBC, which says it has no plans to fire him.

SIMON/PUNS: SCOTT SIMON FRACTURES THE LANGUAGE WITH NORMAN GILBERT IN TORONTO, WHOSE PUN-LOVING GROUP JUST RELEASED 1995'S BEST PUNS.

decision to expel a Saudi dissident at the behest of the Saudi monarchy.

Poet and storyteller Jim Heynan tells his story about a snowbound young boy who fears snow and fantasizes about spring.

difficult decision to pull down a Holocaust memorial because it was being vandalized.

was largely undone by the snow storm that shut down much of the east coast. The gathering was in anticipation of the New Hampshire primary, but candidates and guests had difficulty making it either arriving late or missing it altogether.

NPR's David Baron talks to meteorologists about the kinds of conditions that are necessary to produce a major snow storm. Experts say they're the same kind of conditions needed for an average storm, only more so.

In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.