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- Jacki speaks with Albany, Georgia, City Commissioner Marvin Bannister, who wants to pull the plug on the televised procedings of his commission. Bannister wants to thwart his rivals in neighboring towns, who are using videotape of the commission's inept deliberations to lure business away from Albany.

Banning Eyre reviews the latest recording by the Lebanese composer Marcel Khalife. The work features the Arabic lute, the oud. It's entitled "Jadal: Oud Duo" and it's part of Khalife's on-going attempt to create a solo instrumental repertoire for the oud, which is traditionallly used as a backing instrument for a singer. Eyre finds the piece, which runs just over and hour, to be addictive!

Robert talks with Maryam Elahi, the program officer for the Middle East, North Africa and Europe for Amnesty International. They discuss the report released this week about the torture of prisoners by the Palestinian Authority, and her visits to that region to check of reports of human rights abuses.

Street protests in Belgrade continue against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's government. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli talks about what seems an inevitable victory for an opposition that's gotten plenty of international support.

Radio feature producer Sandy Tolan grew up in Wisconsin. He shares some thoughts about what the Superbowl means to him.

- In southern New Jersey, Girl Scouts are staging a work slow-down as they sell their legendary cookies from door-to-door. The scouts are insisting they be allowed to keep 10 cents more per box, a demand that Girl Scout officials have rejected. Jacki speaks with Jan Snyder, the Girl Scout supervisor who organized the labor action, who says her superiors are nickle and diming her troops.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone with a report on juvenile stand-up comics.

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past eek's news, including astronauts from the space shuttle Columbia; astronaut hannon Lucid; State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns; U.N. Ambassador and ecretary of State nominee Madeleine Albright; and Chairman of the Federal eserve Alan Greenspan.

- Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Bill Brzezinsky, the owner of a cafe in the dusty, economically depressed town of Roby, Texas, where a number of farmers pooled their resources and won the state lottery recently, to the tune of $46 million. Brzezinsky says the sudden infusion of wealth hasn't changed much in Roby. But he's offering a new millionaire's special on his menu.

Personal bankruptcies have increased sharply in the past year. A new study puts the increase at 26% from the year before...a development that many economists find surprising. Analysts say it's unusual for bankruptcy to be increasing without being accompanied by a recession. NPR's Elaine Korry reports.