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former Director of the Congressional Budget Office, about how the budget impasse is affecting financial markets. Reischauer is now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that John Kasich, chairman of the House Budget Committee, pledged today that there will not be another government shutdown later this month...when current funding to run the government is due to expire.

Commentator Lenny Kleinfeld lives in Los Angeles, where is has NOT been snowing. All the talk of the blizzard on the East Coast has him more than a little homesick for bad weather of the old-fashioned type.

NPR'S Neal Conan reports that Iraq is still considered a military threat in the Middle East, five years after its defeat in the Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait. But the United States is the dominant force in the region as the protector of the rich Gulf states.

SCOTT TALKS WITH KETZEL AND ELIOT COLEMAN, AUTHOR OF "The New Organic Grower's Four Season Harvest," (Chelsea Green Publishing Co., P.O. Box 130, Route 113, Post Mills, Vermont 05058-0130) ABOUT ELIOT'S FOUR-SEASON GARDEN IN, OF ALL PLACES...COASTAL NORTHERN MAINE -- A GARDEN HE HARVESTED VEGETABLES FROM THIS WEEK!

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Chris Richard has this report on religious worship behind bars. Richard reports that while many prisoners search out the chapel or synagogue on prison grounds out of noble intentions, others use church as an opportunity for deadly deeds. The constant possibility of wrongdoing keeps chaplins and rabbis on their guard even though they say many inmates are sincerely interested in their own spiritual evolution.

Tovia Smith reports that New Hampshire have been inundated with campaign ads in recent weeks as rivals for the Republican presidential nomination try to outdo each other on the airwaves. This unprecedented use of television advertising -- in a state where previous campaigns were waged mostly in living rooms and meeting halls -- is partly due to the massive influx of campaign spending by millionaire businessman Steve Forbes. Some analysts say the increasingly negative ads will only turn off voters.

The Beatles made their last public performance 27 years ago today, on the roof of Apple studios.